Forty-five percent of Chinese on the mainland feel that the national economy has been getting stronger, according to a recent global economic confidence survey conducted in 19 countries by N-Dynamic Market Research & Consultancy.

Only 8 percent of the respondents globally were bullish about the economy, the survey showed.

The survey revealed that the Chinese have the most confidence in their local economy, while the Japanese and the British were the most pessimistic, with 82 percent of those respondents saying their economies were getting worse, while 72 percent of respondents in the US were pessimistic.