Closely-watched growth data for the world's second largest economy was due to be released on Tuesday.
China has delayed the release of its latest economic growth figures, which were due to be published as the Communist Party's leadership gathers.The decision has been described as "very rare" by experts and is seen by some as a sign of further weakness in the world's second largest economy.
"My only guess is that those numbers were not very good and would not lead to the objective of doubling the Chinese economy in the timespan that President Xi announced," he said. "The normal procedure of signing off those data might have been disrupted as all top leadership are occupied during the pandemic," she said.
GDP measures the size of an economy. Gauging its expansion or contraction is one of the most important ways of measuring how well or badly an economy is performing and is closely watched by economists and central banks.The Politburo - the ruling Communist Party's top policy-making body - did not mention the official growth target. Instead it said it aimed to keep growth within "a reasonable range".
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