{"id":18555,"date":"2020-05-22T13:15:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T04:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/22\/china-abandons-gdp-target-for-first-time-in-years-amid-great-uncertainty-of-virus"},"modified":"2020-05-22T13:15:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T04:15:07","slug":"china-abandons-gdp-target-for-first-time-in-decades-amid-great-uncertainty-of-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18555","title":{"rendered":"China abandons GDP target for first time in decades amid &#8216;great uncertainty&#8217; of virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Premier Le Keqiang tell annual congress that economic growth was \u2018difficult to predict\u2019 and says nation must \u2018tighten its belt\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>China has abandoned setting a target for GDP growth for the first time in decades, citing \u201cgreat uncertainty\u201d caused by the coronavirus pandemic, an acknowledgement of steep challenges the country faces amid a struggling economy and increasing international hostility.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s national parliament, its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/20\/china-prepares-to-stage-annual-congress-and-pretence-of-business-as-usual\">most important political event of the year<\/a>, has been overshadowed by accusations Beijing should be held responsible for the outbreak and concerns about unemployment as the country attempts to restart its economy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/22\/china-abandons-gdp-target-for-first-time-in-years-amid-great-uncertainty-of-virus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premier Le Keqiang tell annual congress that economic growth was \u2018difficult to predict\u2019 and says nation must \u2018tighten its belt\u2019Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChina has abandoned setting a target for GDP growth for the first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,50,556,1069],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-chinese-economy","category-coronavirus-outbreak"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18556,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18555\/revisions\/18556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}