The 12th National People's Congress (NPC), China's parliamentary body, opened its second annual session on Wednesday 5 March in Beijing. Premier Li Keqiang delivered his first government work report at the opening meeting. It sets this year's economic growth target at 7.5 per cent, the same as last year's target, and slightly lower than the 7.7 per cent actual growth in 2013. Li also sets nine major tasks for 2014, making breakthroughs in reform in important areas, ushering in a new phase of China's opening to the outside world and ensuring its high standard performance, making domestic demand the main engine driving growth, advancing agricultural modernisation and rural reform and development, carrying out a new type of people-centred urbanisation, using innovation to support and lead economic structural improvement and upgrading, accelerating the development of education, health, culture and other social programs, making coordinated efforts to ensure and improve people's wellbeing and building China into a beautiful homeland with a sound ecological environment.