Residents to see incomes double

Meeting jiangsu party chief | Luo Zhijun

SHANGHAI - Residents in East China's Jiangsu province - including city dwellers and farmers - will see their incomes double by the end of 2018, said Luo Zhijun, secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China.

To achieve that goal, the province will need to "maintain double-digit growth in GDP over the next seven years, while ensuring residents' incomes keep pace with economic development", Luo said in a recent written interview with China Daily.