Companies that had become used to double-digit GDP expansion must make do with 7.5% this year, if the official target is met.
The past 20 years has seen double-digit GDP growth in Tibet, and this has not come at the expense of the environment.
What's more, imports into the vital Chinese market fell a hefty 18% in November, prompting many economists to forecast an end to double-digit GDP growth.
The economy as a whole is forecast to grow by 11.6% this year, its fifth consecutive year of double-digit GDP growth, according to the annual Blue Book economic forecast by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Year after year of double-digit GDP growth allowing China's capital, Beijing, to spend $40 billion hosting the Olympic Games in 2008 in what was an extravagant coming-of-age party.
And although the region has slowed down from double-digit GDP gains in the last decade, it remains a crucial area of economic growth for many large companies.
Although that was a sensational showing, the best in the world, it didn't live up to a widely expected double-digit GDP growth rate because of the U.S.'s economic downturn.
Inflation is running at almost 6%, unemployment is in double digits and GDP is forecast to show a small decline this year.One important factor that is reminiscent of Iceland is that Hungarians have borrowed heavily in foreign currency.
The World Bank predicts that by 2050 this scarcity will deliver a significant hit to the economies of Africa, central Asia and the Middle East, taking double digits off their GDP.
Water shortages will deliver a "severe hit" to the economies of the Middle East, central Asia, and Africa by the middle of the century, taking double digits off their GDP, the World Bank warned on Tuesday.
Bo initiated a campaign against organized crime, increased spending on welfare programs, maintained consistent double-digit percentage GDP growth, and campaigned to revive Cultural Revolution-era "red culture".
