{"id":42194,"date":"2022-03-05T16:17:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T07:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/05\/china-sets-lowest-economic-growth-target-in-decades-at-annual-meeting"},"modified":"2022-03-05T20:49:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T11:49:17","slug":"china-sets-lowest-economic-growth-target-in-decades-at-annual-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42194","title":{"rendered":"China sets lowest economic growth target in decades at annual meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Premier Li Keqiang warns of risks in economic outlook as the coronavirus, a property slump and uncertainty in Ukraine play out<\/p>\n<p>China has set its lowest annual GDP target in decades, as premier Li Keqiang warned of a \u201cgrave and uncertain\u201d outlook against the backdrop of the coronavirus, a slowing economy and uncertainty over the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Li announced on Saturday the unusually modest target of about 5.5% growth for 2022 \u2013 the lowest since 1991 \u2013 in an address to about 3,000 members of the National People\u2019s Congress in Beijing\u2019s cavernous Great Hall of the People.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/05\/china-sets-lowest-economic-growth-target-in-decades-at-annual-meeting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premier Li Keqiang warns of risks in economic outlook as the coronavirus, a property slump and uncertainty in Ukraine play outChina has set its lowest annual GDP target in decades, as premier Li Keqiang warned of a \u201cgrave and uncertain\u201d outlook against&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42194","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42210,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42194\/revisions\/42210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}