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China\u2019s top economic officials held a press conference on Friday as part of the \u201ctwo sessions\u201d, the country\u2019s annual policymaking meetings.<\/p>\n
The leaders of the National Development and Reform Commission \u2013 Beijing\u2019s top economic planner \u2013 the ministries of finance and commerce, China\u2019s central bank and its main securities regulator were in attendance.<\/p>\n
At the opening session of China\u2019s national legislature on Thursday, Premier Li Qiang presented the major economic targets for 2025. Confirming earlier reporting from the South China Morning Post<\/a>, the premier revealed the country\u2019s annual goal for gross domestic product growth would be between 4.5 and 5 per cent.A draft outline for China\u2019s next five-year plan was also unveiled on Thursday, a document that will set the country\u2019s policy trajectory<\/a> for the rest of the decade. Meanwhile, attention is focused on how Beijing will handle economic relations with the United States, with President Donald Trump expected to visit China<\/a> in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n Reporting by Ji Siqi, Sylvia Ma, Carol Yang, Mia Nurmamat, Shidong Zhang, Coco Feng, Mandy Zuo, Frank Tang and Xiaofei Xu<\/p>\n More from our coverage:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This live blog is freely available to our registered users. Please log in or create an account below.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2102,72,114,969,113,6784,61,60,153307,5773,15834,153306,19205,41668,10178,103788,115],"class_list":{"0":"post-332949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-beijing","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-gdp","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-ji-siqi","17":"tag-li-qiang","18":"tag-national-development-and-reform-commission","19":"tag-policymaking-meetings","20":"tag-premier-li-qiang","21":"tag-press-conference","22":"tag-south-china-morning-post","23":"tag-two-sessions","24":"tag-united-states"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}