Chongqing keeps 'steady growth'

After leading the country's growth rate for two consecutive years, Chongqing expects to maintain its double digit record. It has set its target at 10 percent in 2016.

The municipality's GDP growth led the country at 10.9 percent in 2014 and 11 percent in 2015. The national growth rate was 6.9 percent last year.

"Chongqing overcame economic downward pressures and achieved stable and steady growth," Mayor Huang Qifan said during his annual report on Sunday at the ongoing session of the municipality's People's Congress, its top legislative body.