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Politburo tells officials to go for growth

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Friday’s Politburo meeting confirmed that policymakers will ramp up economic support measures.

The meeting readout made clear the top leadership plans on achieving its (overly) ambitious GDP growth target of “around 5.5%” (Xinhua):

“[We must] make great efforts to realize our targets for this...