Here's the ground reality.
Unlike the steady rise we have been going through China's growth hasn't been smooth or efficient and your falling growth rate is indicative of this very fact.
Again, sticking to the topic.
Its been decades since you lot started your turbofan R&D and China hardly has much to show for it.
I am sure at some point of time China may just get a proper troubleshooted afterburning turbofan, just like you "have" a stealth fighter and "have" a carrier, how upto date or effective it will be at that point of time, is anyone's guess.
1.fueled with huge budget,talent and industry chains, china is rapidly catching up with westen coutries almost in every fields…
engine tech is just one iceberg corner of the enormous catching~up .
https://www.theguardian.com/science...ation-investment-5g-genetics-quantum-internet
2. in many key fields like quamtum communication ,cyber finiace&business,hypersonic and AI,china is already a leading coutry.
3.the whole story is that sinic civilization (china,japan,korea,vietnam) is replacing western civilization (europe,canada, USA and australia)as leading one on the earth.
the re~ emerge of sinic civilization started from japan ,was followed with the 4 asian tigers.
then,the industrilization if 1.3 billion mainland chinese is the decisive accomplishment of the re_emerge of sinized world.
4. it is unnecessory for china to keep a 9% GDP growth as before.
during the past 20 years,china sucessfuly raised chinese average salary from 50USD/month to 500USD/month.chinese average salary/real quality of life now is quite close to the moderate developed economies like Taiwan,if not surpassing them yet.
it is unnecessory/impossible for china to keep 9% growth and raise chinese average salary from 500USD/month to 5000USD/month in the coming 2 decades,because 5000USD/month is more than yankees' and japanese'.
thus,even a 5-6% growth is enough to raise chinese average salary from 500usd/month now to 2000USD/month(frenchmen or japanese' now) in one or two decades.
5.in a word,china almost has passed the hardest phrase of its re~emerge:industrilization.
it is just a matter of time that china become a leading country on the earth.
6.as old civilizations as splendid as china and europe, india/arabia both have potential to remerge.
however,industrialzation is the preconditon of their remerge.
and india's industrialization just started,has a long way full of trapes to go.
arabians seem to be in a situation harder than indians,because they seem to believe Alkora,instead of industrilization,is the ass_saving way.