Are China’s latest economic growth targets a sign of stabilisation or decline? Neither framing fits, says Enodo Economics’ Diana Choyleva. LONDON: China’s 2026 economic growth target of 4.5 to 5 per cent is its lowest in decades, moving off the 5 per cent anchor of the past three post-pandemic years. This has been widely read as a moment of reckoning. That the target was unveiled during the Two Sessions , China’s biggest annual political gathering, alongside details of the 15th Five-Year Plan