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has set out its economic forecast for the year. the country has set a modest target for economic growth this year of around 5%, as it kicked off the annual session of its national people s congress which is poised to implement the biggest government shake up in a decade. last year, successive strict lockdowns slowed growth in china. official figures show the world s second largest economy grew by 3% last year, which was way below the government target of 5.5% and its slowest for decades. janet mui is head of market analysis at brewin dolphin. talk to me about this slowdown because it is a sort of figure that most developed economies would love to have right now, but a slow down to have right now, but a slow down to 5% marks quite a shift in a china s economic outlook. good morning- china s economic outlook. good morning. thank china s economic outlook. good morning. thank you china s economic outlook. good morning. thank you for - china s economic outlook. good morning.
in ukraine fierce fighting continues as russian forces advance on the eastern city of bakhmut. the deputy mayor says the region is almost destroyed. and the stars behind the irish comedy the banshees 0f inisherin speak to usahead of the oscars on sunday. to feel it as colloquial and then see it go out into the world and be received by people from all sorts of, you know, the corners of the globe that we share is pretty surprising and cool. hello and welcome to viewers in the uk and around the world. exactly a month after the devastating earthquakes which killed more than 50,000 people across turkey and syria, an unprecedented number of people are living without proper shelter. the united nations development programme the undp estimates that in turkey alone at least one and a half million people still inside the disaster zone are homeless. the true figure could be even higher. let s show you some live pictures from hatay in turkey which was one of the worst affected
the country has set a modest target for economic growth this year of around 5%, as it kicked off the annual session of its national people s congress, which is poised to implement the biggest government shake up in a decade. last year, successive strict lockdowns slowed growth in china. official figures show the world s second largest economy grew by 3% last year, which was way below the government target of 5.5% and its slowest for decades. now, compared to many economies, a 5% growth target sounds very positive but as janet mui, head of market analysis at brewin dolphin, explained china is an exception. i think economists were pretty disappointed at this conservative growth forecast, as you mentioned. it is actually a high figure for the developed market, but china is still an emerging market that should be growing strongly. so this is slower than expected, because i think in the previous year the government has missed this gdp growth target and i don t think that they