China cuts GDP growth to 7.5 pct in 2012
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BEIJING, March 5 (Xinhua) -- China sets its GDP growth target at 7.5 percent this year, down from 8 percent in 2011, according to a government work report to be delivered by Premier 1 Wen Jiabao at the parliament's annual session Monday.
This is the first time for the Chinese government to lower its economic growth target after keeping it around 8 percent for seven consecutive 2 years.
"Here I wish to stress that in setting a slightly lower GDP growth rate, we hope to make it fit with targets in the Twelfth Five-Year Plan, and to guide people in all sectors 3 to focus their work on accelerating the transformation 4 of the pattern of economic development and making economic development more sustainable and efficient, so as to achieve higher-level, higher-quality development over a longer period of time," reads the report which was distributed to the media.
Previously 5, China has announced to target a 7 percent GDP growth from 2011 to 2015, the country's 12th Five-Year Plan period.
China's economy expanded by 9.2 percent in 2011 to 47.16 trillion yuan (about 7.49 trillion U.S. dollars) from a year earlier after it grew 10.3 percent in 2010. In the fourth quarter last year, the country's GDP growth decelerated to 8.9 percent year-on-year, the slowest pace in 10 quarters.
The government has set the main theme of this year's economic and social development as "make progress while maintaining stability" at a tone-setting central economic work conference in December last year.
China will continue to follow a proactive fiscal 6 policy and a prudent 7 monetary 8 policy, carry out "timely and appropriate anticipatory 9 adjustments and fine-tuning", and make its policies "more targeted, flexible, and anticipatory", according to the report.
"To achieve steady growth, we will continue to expand domestic demand and keep foreign demand stable, vigorously develop the real economy, work hard to counter the impact of various factors of instability and uncertainty 10 at home and abroad, promptly 11 resolve emerging issues that signal unfavorable trends, and maintain stable economic performance," reads the report.
The Chinese government has set the aim to hold this year's consumer price growth at around 4 percent. The country's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge 12 of inflation, rose 4.5 percent year-on-year in January, down from a 37-month high of 6.5 percent in July last year.
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adj.连续的，联贯的，始终一贯的
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n.部门( sector的名词复数 )；领域；防御地区；扇形
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n.变化；改造；转变
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adv.以前，先前（地）
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adj.财政的，会计的，国库的，国库岁入的
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adj.谨慎的，有远见的，精打细算的
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adj.货币的，钱的；通货的；金融的；财政的
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adj.预想的，预期的
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n.易变，靠不住，不确知，不确定的事物
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adv.及时地，敏捷地
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