China has set its GDP growth target at around 6.5 percent for 2017, compared with a target range of 6.5-7 percent for 2016, according to a government work report made available to the media on Sunday.
The report says China aims to keep consumer inflation at around three percent in 2017, and it will aim to create more than 11 million jobs, with the registered urban unemployment rate kept within 4.5 percent.
China's consumer price index rose two percent in 2016, and a target of around three percent has been set for 2017.
The country added 13.14 million jobs in 2016, and the registered urban jobless rate stood at 4.02 percent at the end of last year, according to the report.
