{"id":515766,"date":"2026-03-05T10:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/515766\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T10:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:27:15","slug":"china-cuts-2026-gdp-growth-target-to-4-5-5-lowest-in-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/515766\/","title":{"rendered":"China cuts 2026 GDP growth target to 4.5%-5%, lowest in decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/politics\/china-people-s-congress\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">China People&#8217;s Congress<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Premier Li acknowledges &#8216;difficulties and challenges&#8217; as Beijing strives for 2035 economic goal<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/5\/9.jpeg\" alt=\"20260304 Great Hall of the People\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">China&#8217;s National People&#8217;s Congress begins\u00a0March 5 at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The annual gathering sets the country&#8217;s economic and social policy agenda. (Photo by Tomoki Mera)<\/p>\n<p>WATARU SUZUKI<\/p>\n<p>March 5, 2026 09:29 JST<\/p>\n<p>Updated on March 5, 2026 12:41 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">BEIJING &#8212; China on Thursday lowered its gross domestic product growth target for 2026 to 4.5%-5%, a move analysts saw as a watershed as the government grapples with weak domestic demand and a volatile trade environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China People&#8217;s Congress Premier Li acknowledges &#8216;difficulties and challenges&#8217; as Beijing strives for 2035 economic goal China&#8217;s National&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[43409,204254,45,49,48,95,15144,122051,46,3607,1659,204255,47926],"class_list":["post-515766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-43409","tag-45-5","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-cuts","tag-decades","tag-economy","tag-gdp","tag-growth","tag-lowest","tag-target"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}