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China has set an ambitious growth target of “around 5%” this year, despite the world’s second-largest economy struggling with slowing global demand for its exports, weak consumer spending at home, and a crisis in the property sector. Premier Li Qiang announced the goal to the nearly 3,000 delegates at the start of the annual rubber-stamp National People’s Congress in Beijing on Tuesday. “It won’t be easy to achieve this year’s targets,” Li told the crowd in the capital’s Great Hall of the People. But he said 5% growth was achievable if the all parts of the country join together and people “wor…

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