Capital's H2 growth path leading toward technology

Leading officials outline strategies for dealing with 'urban diseases'

Beijing's top officials presented a second-half road map for the city during a two-day meeting, with the goals of stabilizing economic growth and curing "urban diseases" that are caused by too many people and not enough resources.

Guo Jinlong, secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee, said last Friday at the Conference on the Economic and Social Development of Beijing in the First Half that the city will further rely on investment and the creation of "hot consumption points" to sustain GDP growth in the year's second-half .