A Special Report dated 15 December 2015 by Natixis, a French corporate and investment bank, examines the following tectonic shifts in China –

(a) The RMB – Cheap to Expensive

(b) Demographics – Rural to Urban

(c) Growth – Catching-up to Innovation

(d) Consumption – Essential to Leisure

(e) Geopolitics – Status Quo to Revisionist 

Download From Old to New China Tectonic shifts for Asia in 2016

Along with China's explosive digitized move from online to offline commerce and her embrace of COP21's game-changing momentum towards a low carbon future, the world is on the cusp of an epoch-defining transformation – Finance, Business, Lifestyles, Values, not to mention the Distribution of Global Power. Things are unlikely to stay the same again.