A report by China's Development Research Centre in 2012 warned that the economic leap forward will fail, leaving China stuck in the "middle income trap", unless Beijing embraces the whole package of modern free thinking. What it meant was democracy. "The government’s dominance in key sectors, while earlier an advantage, is in the future likely to act as a constraint on creativity. The role of the private sector is critical because innovation at the technology frontier is quite different in nature from catching up technologically. It is not something that can be achieved through government planning," it said.