As they attempt this pivot, the country’s growth rate is, inevitably, slowing. The great danger is that without credit-fuelled investment the economy will slow too quickly and China will experience the “hard landing” than some economists have been dreading for many years now. However Brian Jackson, Beijing-based economist with IHS Economics, he wrote."In any case, we don’t view China’s stock market as a very good indicator of the overall health of the economy, given it remains so trivial in its linkages to the rest of the economy.