Leaders target ongoing bureaucratic inaction

The central government vowed to make stronger efforts to counter local bureaucratic inaction and resistance in helping the economy meet this year's growth targets and transition to a consumer-driven growth model.

In an executive meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang on Wednesday, the State Council, or Cabinet, said it had spotted many problems in local governments, particularly in their lackluster implementation of the central government's policies to speed up reform and growth.

Those problems, the meeting found, include unspent money, delayed public projects, idle land in areas designated for development and slow progress in rebuilding shantytowns - all impeding Beijing's ambition to achieve its GDP growth target this year.