China’s economy continues to flourish this year

Dear rs47

I'm happy to respond.

First of all, please do NOT start a new thread for a question that has already been posted on GMAT Club. Always search for question thoroughly before starting a brand new thread. If you have thoughts or questions about a certain SC problem, a pre-existing thread about the problem would the best place to post. I just merged your post into a pre-existing thread.

I will also say, I don't know the source of this question, but I think it is pure trash. In a real economy, the causes of current flourishing do not have to be all in the present moment. Things that happened last year, or even ten years ago, can still have profound consequences on the current economy. The presumption of the same tense is simply not warranted in this question. Furthermore, a mix of different tenses in parallel is 100% fine. See:
GMAT Grammar Rules: Parallelism and Verb Tenses
Given this, any of the answer choices could conceivably be correct. This is an exceptionally poorly designed question.

Here's a more rigorous SC practice question:
The mayor's five-year

Does all this make sense?
Mike