Business\Economy

Key development targets in 2017

chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2017-03-05 11:35

1 GDP growth of around 6.5 percent, or higher if possible in practice

2 CPI increase kept at around 3 percent

3 Over 11 million new urban jobs, and a registered urban unemployment rate within 4.5 percent

4 A steady rise in import and export volumes, and a basic balance in international payments

5 Increases in personal income basically in step with economic growth

6 A reduction of at least 3.4 percent in energy consumption per unit of GDP, and continued reductions in the release of major pollutants