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China continues to lead the world in sectors like green technology and robotics, but in recent years, economic growth has slowed. So what happens when the government struggles to hold up its end of the bargain? The BBC’s China correspondent Laura Bicker speaks with Asma Khalid about the Chinese citizens who feel they are being left behind.
- ▪China continues to lead the world in sectors like green technology and robotics, but in recent years, economic growth has slowed.
- ▪So what happens when the government struggles to hold up its end of the bargain?
- ▪The BBC’s China correspondent Laura Bicker speaks with Asma Khalid about the Chinese citizens who feel they are being left behind.
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| Original publisher | BBC News — Business |
| Canonical URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct8mhx?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss |
| Publication time | Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-11T11:15:42.376Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-11T11:15:42.376Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Episode detailsWorld Service,·11 Aug 2026,·27 minsChina’s a robot superpower – but are the people being left behind?The Global StoryPlayBookmarkBookmarkSubscribeSubscribeAvailable for over a yearFor decades, the Chinese Communist Party has had a distinct economic bargain with its people — obedience in exchange for economic prosperity. China continues to lead the world in sectors like green technology and robotics, but in recent years, economic growth has slowed. Signs of unrest and unease have appeared. So what happens when the government struggles to hold up its end of the bargain? The BBC’s China correspondent Laura Bicker speaks with Asma Khalid about the Chinese citizens who feel they are being left behind.
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