{"id":69866,"date":"2025-03-05T14:09:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T05:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/05\/china-donald-trump-tariffs-gdp-target"},"modified":"2025-03-05T14:09:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T05:09:56","slug":"china-sets-gdp-target-of-5-for-2025-amid-tariff-war-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69866","title":{"rendered":"China sets GDP target of 5% for 2025 amid tariff war with Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Economists believe that meeting the target will be challenging as Beijing grapples with Donald Trump\u2019s new trade war<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/05\/china-two-sessions-meeting-npc-cppcc-political-gathering-beijing\">Explained: what is China\u2019s Two Sessions meeting?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>China has set its GDP target for 2025 at \u201caround 5%\u201d, a figure which was unveiled by Premier Li Qiang at the opening session of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/04\/china-two-sessions-beijing-opening-parliament\">National People\u2019s Congress<\/a> (NPC) in Beijing on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Li announced the growth target in the annual government work report, which also outlined plans to stabilise economic growth by boosting domestic demand and creating 12m new urban jobs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/05\/china-donald-trump-tariffs-gdp-target\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economists believe that meeting the target will be challenging as Beijing grapples with Donald Trump\u2019s new trade warExplained: what is China\u2019s Two Sessions meeting?China has set its GDP target for 2025 at \u201caround 5%\u201d, a figure which was unveiled by Pre&#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":[41,50,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69866","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=69866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69867,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69866\/revisions\/69867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}