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The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), China’s chief governmental data compiler, held a press conference on Friday morning.
At the conference, NBS Commissioner Kang Yi and other officials revealed the yearly figures for gross domestic product , population, unemployment and other metrics that will inform policy decisions in 2025.
While meeting the annual GDP target – set at “about 5 per cent” at the opening session of the national legislature in March – has been a priority for decades, the year’s register of births and deaths has taken on greater importance as the country’s population has been in a state of steady decline .
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