‘Roll up sleeves for action’: China’s laggard regions scramble for Beijing’s GDP targets

A Chinese coastal province that reported growth slower than the national average has vowed an all-out effort to revitalise development, in a telling sign of the mounting pressure on laggard regions after Beijing stressed annual economic targets at last week’s fifth plenum. The party secretary of the Fujian provincia…

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