China’s stimulus plan aims at 8% economic growth

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China’s once-white-hot economic growth is cooling and an ambitious spending plan outlined yesterday has not convinced everyone that the nation can bounce back. Premier Wen Jiabao recently said that 2009 may be China’s most difficult year for economic development since the start of the 21st century.

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