Deputies to the 13th National People's Congress attend the opening meeting of the first session of the 13th National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, March 5, 2018. [Photo by Xu Jingxing/China Daily]

MAJOR TARGETS FOR 2018

-- GDP growth of around 6.5 percent

-- CPI increase of around 3 percent

-- Over 11 million new urban jobs, the surveyed urban unemployment rate within 5.5 percent, and the registered urban jobless rate within 4.5 percent

-- Basic parity in personal income growth and economic growth

-- A steady rise in import and export volumes, and a basic equilibrium in the balance of payments

-- A drop of at least 3 percent in energy consumption per unit of GDP, and continued reductions in the release of major pollutants

-- Rates for mobile internet services will be cut by at least 30 percent in 2018.

-- Substantive progress in supply-side structural reform, basically stable macro leverage, and systematic and effective prevention and control of risk