Local leaders look to quality of growth

TWENTY-EIGHT provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions recently held their annual meetings of people's congresses and local committees of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and 26 of them have lowered their GDP growth targets. Comments:

What China currently needs is not double-digit miraculous growth, but the optimization of its economic structure and promotion of better economic quality. It is good that provincial leaders have shifted their focus from GDP growth to reform, which brings hope of continuous prosperity and greater enjoyment of the fruits of development to the people.

China News Agency, Jan 29