The growth target is, however, anything but an easy task, he said, as Shanghai's GDP had surpassed 3 trillion yuan (8 billion) for the first time in 2017. "Every percentage point of GDP growth today equals 2.5 percentage points of that a decade ago or 9 percentage points two decades ago," Ying said.
The growth was markedly slower than the over 30 percent seen in 2016.
The governments of three of China's most populous cities have been told they provided inadequate pollution controls and failed to meet some "green" targets, according to the results of top-level inspections.
The government will support high-quality private enterprises-enterprises with good credit, to take leading roles in helping structural transformation, issuing debt bonds to ease funding pressure, the National Development and Reform Commission spokesperson Meng Wei said during a news conference on Thursday.
The heat wave peaked last month on July 20, with almost 1.6 million square kilometers of land-or one-sixth of the country's total-enduring average temperatures of over 35 C. More than 134,000 sq km of land was baked by temperatures over 38 C, said the administration.
The high blood pressure control rate among patients however is only 13.8 percent in China. For diabetes it is even lower, at 3.08 percent, according to project organizers.
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The guidelines were drafted jointly by the People's Bank of China, China Banking Regulatory Commission, China Securities Regulatory Commission, China Insurance Regulatory Commission and State Administration of Foreign Exchange.
The gross surplus of the hotel sector also recorded double-digit growth in 2017, reaching 3.57 billion patacas, up by 62.1 percent. The gross surplus ratio went up by 3.2 percentage points to 11.0 percent.
The group called on everyone in the community to stop making excuses for violence that has "lost rationality and humanity", and to support the government in law-enforcement actions to restore law and order.
The group's drugstores and pharmacies, which sell over-the-counter healthcare and household care products, have seen their market share fall constantly as well. In 2015, they accounted for 30 percent of the global market, with the number dropping to 24 percent last year, Euromonitor found.