Report in the China Securities journal, headlines from earlier are here
More now via Reuters:
- China will face great difficulty in achieving economic growth above 6.5 percent over the 2016-2020 period
- Due to slowing global demand and rising labour costs at home
- Comments from top state adviser Li Wei, president of the State Council's Development Research Centre
- Comments from over the weekend
- Main impeding factors were a likely global economic slowdown, rising labour costs that were eroding China's competitive advantage, and growing environmental concerns which meant that the country could not industrialise arable land at as rapid a pace as before
