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China’s offi­cial eco­nomic growth tar­gets have been trend­ing lower over the past dec­ade as poli­cy­makers have sought to rein in the coun­try’s grow­ing debt bur­den and stim­u­late more domestic con­sump­tion. Ana­lysts said this year’s con­ser­vat­ive eco­nomic growth tar­get would be easier for Xi’s new eco­nomic team to meet, after fall­ing far short of its goal in 2022. Gold­man Sachs said achiev­ing this year’s tar­get was «not chal­len­ging», given the low base from last year. It pre­dicted GDP would grow 5.5 per cent this year driven by the rebound in house­hold con­sump­tion after the reversal of China’s strict zero-Covid policy.

«This growth tar­get her­alds the return of head­line GDP growth as the organ­ising prin­ciple for eco­nomic and fin­an­cial policies but also sig­nals that the era of rip-roar­ing growth is over,» said Eswar Prasad, senior fel­low at the Brook­ings Insti­tu­tion. China’s most power­ful pres­id­ent since Mao Zedong, Xi is expec­ted to use this year’s par­lia­ment­ary ses­sion, which began yes­ter­day, to under­take sweep­ing changes to his admin­is­tra­tion. Read­ing out the gov­ern­ment’s new work report before about 3,000 mem­bers of the Con­gress yes­ter­day, Li Keqi­ang set a tar­get for China’s budget defi­cit this year at 3 per cent of GDP while pledging to cre­ate 12mn urban jobs and keep the unem­ploy­ment rate at about 5.5 per cent. China needed to «expand mar­ket access» for for­eign investors, prop up con­sump­tion and con­trol risk in the real estate sec­tor, Li said, in one of his last appear­ances as China’s second-ranked offi­cial.

Aside from Li Qiang, Xi is expec­ted to appoint new heads to the gov­ern­ment’s main fin­an­cial agen­cies and reg­u­lat­ors, includ­ing the People’s Bank of China.
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  1. Max6 March 2023 at 13:14

    Since they've been doing so badly recently it won't be very hard to reach their targets for this year. Or it shouldn't be hard but we'll see what happens. Who knows what other weird measures like zero-Covid they end up coming with that slows them down?

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