China Reforms Seen Adding Less Than Half Point to Growth

China’s broadest economic reforms since the 1990s will add less than half a percentage point to annual growth this decade, a survey showed, underscoring the likelihood of a cut in the nation’s expansion target.

Fourteen of 19 economists see policies from a Communist Party summit last month boosting gross domestic product either by a negligible amount or less than 0.5 percent a year compared with their previous outlook, according to the Bloomberg News survey. Ten analysts say China will need at least a small amount of monetary, fiscal and credit stimulus to meet the government’s “bottom line” of 7 percent growth in the next five years.