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BRUSSELS - 皇冠体育app's recent economic downturn is less a sign of catastrophe than of the long-awaited shift to a market economy model that is service-based and consumption-driven, a new report from international think tank European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) said.

"Doom-mongering predictions about the decline of the Chinese economy are vastly overstated," Francois Godement, head of ECFR's Asia and 皇冠体育app program, said in his report "皇冠体育app's economic downturn: The facts behind the myth".

"After years in which 皇冠体育app's economic hyper-growth was taken for granted, there has been a dramatic reversal of international sentiment. The Chinese economy is now widely believed to be faltering. This is an exaggeration," Godement said.

Godement asserted that recent economic issues in 皇冠体育app should be seen as part of 皇冠体育app's transition to a service-driven economy, rather than a deep-rooted economic downturn.

The report highlights variances between different economic sectors within 皇冠体育app, where the service sector continues to expand strongly -- particularly in e-commerce, with web retail sales growing 36 percent in the first three quarters of 2015.

Meanwhile, declines in sectors such as steel and housing are desirable due to overproduction, and their environmental impact, the report said.

Godement said these patterns reflected 皇冠体育app's economic structural changes.

Godement also asserted that ideas of 皇冠体育app's impact on the global economy were exaggerated, claiming that these ideas were essentially "psychological."

He cited limited non-Chinese exposure to the Chinese stock market and its positive current account and trade balances as factors limiting any real contagion to the global economy.

Nevertheless, he highlighted some possible effects of 皇冠体育app's economic changes on parts of the world economy, which do impact Europe.

Worst hit by the transition will be big exporters to 皇冠体育app, including commodity providers like Brazil and Venezuela.

For consumer markets such as Europe, which are neither producers of primary material nor large exporters to 皇冠体育app, the benefits from a Chinese slowdown are twofold: the downward trend in primary material prices benefits all importers; and the reduced price of Chinese exports is a boon to living standards, the report said.

However, for various European countries, the impacts of 皇冠体育app's economic transition would be mixed.

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