- Analysts predict China to lower GDP targets to around 4.5%, with focus on innovation, technological self-reliance - Rollout of 15th Five-Year Plan and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s meetings with deputies to remain focus of political gatherings beginning March 5 - Under Xi, deputies have shown ‘stronger substantive agreement’ with his policies but also ‘reflect greater emphasis on political loyalty in delegate selection,’ says Yale Law School fellow Changhao Wei ISTANBUL Thousands of Chinese