if the first glimpses of china’s economic targets and priorities for the initial year of xi jinping’s third term as leader are any guide the upbeat talk from policy makers that excited stock market bulls in recent months may not come with much more followthrough the annual legislative session the national people’s congress kicked off on sunday with news that chinese officials are aiming at a roughly 5 increase in gross domestic product this year the lowest growth target since the late 1990s the government work report the document that lays out economic goals and priorities offered little indication that policy makers are ready to roll out more aggressive monetary and fiscal policy to give the economy an additional boost