NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Taming rapidly rising prices is so 2011.

In the new year ahead, China’s top leaders will focus instead on slowly revving up the world’s second largest economy.

At least, that’s the message economists glean from reading in between the lines of an official government release Wednesday. Chinese leaders met behind closed doors for three days this week, to hash out their economic strategy for 2012 at their Central Economic Work Conference.  Read more