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The Economist.

From The Economist in London, this is Money Talks, a weekly programme about news in the worlds of business, finance and economics.

I'm Andrew Palmer, the Business Affairs Editor.

On today's show, as the National People's Congress in China meets to discuss their new five-year plan, we'll discuss that country's

plans for economic greatness and we'll also look at how they are affecting bouncy

global commodity prices. With me here to discuss is John O'Sullivan, our economics editor, and Henry Tricks, our energy editor.

John, let's start with you and just wrap up what it was that we heard from the Prime Minister in China at the weekend.

What were the headlines as he outlined

where China is heading over the next five years?

Well, I think it was more where we're going over the next year

that caught people's attention.

And I think the overall message was that they're not going to let

GDP growth falter in any way. So they said a growth target range for GDP this year of six and a half

to seven percent so that's well at the top end of what

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