Industry | Zhao Shengnan

Chinese entrepreneurs have called for the placing of more importance on the contracting real economy to boost growth amid concerns about the country's economic slowdown.

"A healthy market economy relies on both a real and virtual economy, but the real one is the fundamental basis, serviced and pushed forward by the highly efficient virtual one," said Gao Dekang, founder and chief executive officer of Bosideng Group, China's largest down clothing maker.