{"id":321575,"date":"2026-02-05T12:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T12:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/321575\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T12:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T12:16:11","slug":"chinas-provinces-ease-growth-targets-fueling-expectations-of-national-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/321575\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s provinces ease growth targets, fueling expectations of national cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Country&#8217;s lower GDP target could reflect tech focus over stimulus, slower expansion: analysts<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/6\/4.jpeg\" alt=\"20260205 China local economies\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Retailers unpack\u00a0horse plush toys on Jan. 21 ahead of the Lunar\u00a0New\u00a0Year\u00a0in Yiwu, Zhejiang province, which\u00a0is among the provinces that set lower GDP growth targets for 2026. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>WATARU SUZUKI<\/p>\n<p>February 5, 2026 16:18 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">SHANGHAI &#8212; A majority of Chinese provinces have set lower growth targets in 2026 compared with last year, a sign the world&#8217;s second-largest economy is bracing for an era of slower expansion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economy Country&#8217;s lower GDP target could reflect tech focus over stimulus, slower expansion: analysts Retailers unpack\u00a0horse plush toys&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,16268,38003,6574,179,18,17956,155219,7111,19,17,18270,155218,18562],"class_list":["post-321575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-chinas","tag-cut","tag-ease","tag-economy","tag-eire","tag-expectations","tag-fueling","tag-growth","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-national","tag-provinces","tag-targets"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116017980114629162","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}