China on Wednesday targeted a modest 7.5 per cent GDP growth in 2014, unchanged from last year, as the Government looks to steer the economy onto a more sustainable and balanced path.
The new target was announced in the first work report by Premier li Keqiang at the annual session of the National People’s Congress. Comprising about 3000 deputies, the NPC began its eight- day session in the backdrop of last Saturday’s horrific knife attacks by a group of militants from Xinjiang at Kunming railway station in which 33 people were killed and 143 injured in what the official media called as China’s 9/11.