{"id":62346,"date":"2024-03-05T14:09:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T05:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/05\/china-national-peoples-congress-gdp-target-growth-5-premier-li-qiang"},"modified":"2024-03-05T14:09:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T05:09:01","slug":"china-sets-challenging-gdp-target-in-face-of-regional-tensions-and-ageing-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62346","title":{"rendered":"China sets challenging GDP target in face of regional tensions and ageing population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Economists say 5% target is ambitious, as premier Li Qiang tells annual gathering that global economy and problems at home are presenting hurdles to recovery<\/p>\n<p>China has set its target for GDP growth at 5%, in line with analysts\u2019 expectations for another year of historically<strong> <\/strong>modest ambitions for the economy, amid regional tensions and its demographic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s premier, Li Qiang, spoke of the \u201cchallenges\u201d facing China\u2019s leaders as he delivered his annual government work report on Tuesday. He cited the global economy and regional tensions as hurdles for China\u2019s recovery, as well as domestic issues such as low consumer demand in a challenging labour market.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/05\/china-national-peoples-congress-gdp-target-growth-5-premier-li-qiang\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economists say 5% target is ambitious, as premier Li Qiang tells annual gathering that global economy and problems at home are presenting hurdles to recoveryChina has set its target for GDP growth at 5%, in line with analysts\u2019 expectations for another &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4154,"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":[41,50,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62346","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\/4154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62347,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62346\/revisions\/62347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}