| SUMMINGUP | Form estimate of China in review (7-2) |
| GREATLEAP | The attempt by the People's Republic of China in 1959-60 to solve the country's economic problems (5,4,7) |
| LONGMARCH | The --- --- was a journey of about 6,000 miles undertaken by the Red Army of China in 1934-35 (4,5) |
| QUOTATION | Estimate of costs (9) |
| MISQUOTED | Gets estimate of cost on motorway, as lines may be botched? |
| BUDGETARY | Pertaining to a government's estimate of income and expenditure (9) |
| VALUATION | A vain lout's unexpected estimate of worth (9) |
| APPRAISAL | A friend going round Paris upset at estimate of value (9) |
| UNDERRATE | Make too low an estimate of |
| PROGNOSIS | Estimate of future health |
| OVERRATES | Makes too high an estimate of more than one bowling team's efficiency (9) |
| FORECASTS | Estimates of future weather (9) |
| ENLAI | First premier of the People's Republic of China, in office from 1949 to 1976 (2,3) |
| MACAO | Bill embraced by leader of China in region of that country (5) |
| XI | Became president of China in 2013 (2) |
| JETLI | Portrayer of the Emperor of China in "Mulan" (2020) |
| MAOTSETUNG | Founder of the People's Republic of China (in the pre-Pinyin spelling) (3,3-4) |
| FORWARD | The attempt by the People's Republic of China in 1959-60 to solve the country's economic problems (5,4,7) |
| ZHOU | First premier of the People's Republic of China, in office from 1949 to 1976 (4) |
| SHANGHAI | Largest city of China, in which the Chinese Communist Party was founded in 1921 (8) |
