Via MNI comes this from the the National Development and Reform Commission

  • 7% growth is a target and not a must-hit goal
  • Government is aiming for growth in a band around 7% - but not at 7%
  • Many downward pressures on the economy ... sluggish investment demand, slowing export growth, falling producer prices and long-standing production overcapacity
  • But much potential from urbanization, new industrialization and agriculture

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I thought we'd pretty much accepted sub 7% is now the go? NDRC making sure we know it perhaps.