Besides the cheap consumer goods, roads and bridges it has taken to foreign nations, China should focus on creating jobs in regions such as Africa where they are needed.
Far from China's financially bustling coast, at a crossroads along the country's largest river, one historic city is calling for innovation to flow.
3D Printing technology prototypes Wuhan's future industrial model
Chu Xiao's office is only 50 meters from Antwerp's central railway station. Through a window, the Beijinger can see crowds of people from every corner of the world flowing in and out of the city every day.
No two diamonds are exactly the same, and the same might be said of what people see in them. When Gerard Yeung looks at the precious stones they represent freedom - the freedom of following a career of his choosing.
After witnessing a slowdown during the last two quarters, China's economy seems to have returned to positive terrain with its key manufacturing gauge rising to a 16-month high in August on the back of strong new orders.
China Petrochemical Corp, or Sinopec Group, has agreed to pay $3.1 billion for a 33 percent stake in Apache Corp's Egyptian oil and natural gas business, its biggest purchase in the Middle East and a sign of China's increasing overseas energy investment.
Overseas investment may become more of a choice for China's richest families as foreign private banks are looking at offshore opportunities for their Chinese customers to avoid tougher regulations in the country, a PricewaterhouseCoopers survey said.
Belgium-based Oleon NV, a leading producer of oleochemicals - chemicals derived from plant and animal fats - has the largest market share in Europe but it was only last year that it launched its first brand in China, with a team of just three people.
It has long been renowned for its technological innovation and is widely known as China's Silicon Valley, but Zhongguancun, in northwestern Beijing, is now pondering its future.
Firm with roots in bygone age survives thanks to an attitude of sink or swim
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