China trims GDP target citing ‘grave challenges’
05 March 2017 |
3:55 pm
China's premier warns that the world's second-largest economy faces "grave challenges", signalling a further deceleration as he announced a trimmed 2017 GDP growth target of "around 6.5 percent".
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