How Do You Say Hard Landing In Chinese?

HOW do you say "hard landing" in Chinese? ?ç?é?? (ying zhuolu)—that's how. Lots of nervous Chinese have started typing those characters into Google, point out Paul Cavey, Tim Powers and Chen Shao of Macquarie (see chart). There were about four times as many searches for the term this month as last. "That the economy is slowing is filtering into the public consciousness," they conclude. Since economic fears are often self-fulfilling, the googlers' nervousness may contribute to the very slowdown they fear.