China sets 2010 economic growth rate at 8%, stressing quality of growth

Setting the 8-percent target mainly "aims at ensuring the quality of economic growth, focusing on transformation of economic growth pattern and adjustment of economic structure," says the report submitted to the National People´s Congress (NPC), the country´s top legislature. Watch Video>>

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