Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's remarks Friday are part of China's annual parliamentary meeting, delayed by about two months this year due to the disease known as Covid-19.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang shared the government's outlook Friday as part of China's annual parliamentary meeting, delayed by about two months this year due to the coronavirus.Chinese Premier Li Keqiang.China made a rare decision not to set a target for its economic growth this year due to uncertainties about the impact of the coronavirus.
"I would like to point out that we have not set a specific target for economic growth this year," Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said in an English-language text of the work report he was set to deliver on Friday. "This is because our country will face some factors that are difficult to predict in its development due to the great uncertainty regarding the covid 19 pandemic and the world economic and trade environment," Li said.
The remarks are part of China's annual parliamentary meeting, which was delayed by about two months this year due to the coronavirus outbreak that began in China last year and has since spread globally. As a result, some analysts expected ahead of the report that Li might share a GDP target for a timeframe other than 2020 itself. Last year, GDP
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