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Chinese premier rejects idea that 2021 GDP growth target too 'low'

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Thursday defended the government's target for more than 6% economic growth this year

Signposts from China

In its post-Covid recovery phase, China springs a few surprises but sticks to the familiar on foreign policy with India

China to push for building 'Polar Silk Road' in Arctic Ocean

This raises prospects for the emergence of a new sea route

China ramps up tech commitment in 5-year plan, eyes 7% boost in R&D spend

China will increase its annual research and development spending by more than 7% every year over the next five years

China sets over 6% GDP target in 2021 as economy in rebound mode

China was the first to be hit by the Covid-19 and the earliest to recover from the lockdown effects

China announces 'over 6%' economic growth target, become more self reliant

China's top economic official announced a healthy growth target for the nation and its plans to become a more self-reliant technology leader amid tension with Washington and Europe over trade

China becomes India's biggest trading partner in first 9 months of FY21

China imported goods worth $15.3 from India and exported goods worth $45.4 billion to India

China's central bank pumps cash into the financial system

China's central bank pumped cash into the financial system through open market operations

US to look at adding more restrictions on sensitive tech exports to Chins

"We are maintaining those tariffs while we conduct our review because we're not going to act precipitously," he said

Hard labour for cheap stuff

Book review of Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods

Best of BS Opinion: China's pursuit of global finance, ports biz & more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

China's factory recovery slows in January as coronavirus returns

It remained above the 50-point mark that separates growth from contraction on a monthly basis

China's factory activity growth slows in January due to Covid-19

China's factory activity grew at the slowest pace in five months in January, hit by a wave of domestic coronavirus infections

China likely to avoid setting 2021 GDP target over debt concerns: Report

China is the world's second-biggest economy

Committed to stopping China's economic abuse by working with allies: WH

Psaki stated that the Biden-Harris administration would be tackling the threat posed by Beijing with strategic patience and discussing with the US Congress

Coronavirus lockdowns are spreading a year after China closed Wuhan

In Australia, the recent discovery of one case in Brisbane prompted a three-day lockdown

China's economy grows 2.3% in 2020 as rebound from coronavirus gains pace

In the local currency, the GDP exceeded 100-trillion-yuan ($15.42 trillion) threshold to 101.5986 trillion yuan

China's Q4 GDP grows 6.5% y-o-y, beats expectations as recovery gains pace

The gross domestic product (GDP) growth was faster than the 6.1% forecast by economists in a Reuters poll, and followed 4.9% growth in the third quarter

From hard lockdown to tactful reopening: How China bounced back from Covid

Since it opened in March, when China was still in the grip of Covid-19, the factory has struggled to find enough machinery operators or quality control technicians

A year after Covid began, China on course to surpass US as biggest economy

Global output fell 4.2% last year, according to the World Bank, pushing China's share of it to 14.5% at 2010 dollar prices -- two years earlier than expected