BEIJING: China has set its growth target for this year at between 6.5 and 7 percent, the country’s top economic planner said Wednesday, an acknowledgement that expansion will continue to weaken.

Global investors are closely watching the slowdown in the world’s second largest economy, which has created turbulence in world markets.

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