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Urgent: China targets economic growth of 6.5-7 pct in 2016

Xinhua, March 5, 2016 Adjust font size:

China targets economic growth rate of 6.5 to 7 percent in 2016, and an average annual growth rate of at least 6.5 percent through 2020, according to a government work report available to media Saturday morning before the opening of the annual parliamentary session.

Last year's target was around 7 percent, and China registered an actual 6.9 percent growth, the slowest expansion in a quarter of a century. Endi