China Sets Year's Economic Growth Target 'Around 5%'

BEIJING - China's government announced plans to promote a consumer-led revival of the nation's struggling economy as its legislature opened a session Sunday that will tighten President Xi Jinping's control over business and society.

Premier Li Keqiang, the top economic official, set this year's official growth target 'around 5%' following the end of anti-virus controls that kept millions of people at home and tri