BEIJING - China will strive to achieve its 2020 economic and social development goals and tasks, state television quoted President Xi Jinping as saying on Thursday.

China will consolidate and expand results achieved in coronavirus control and economic recovery in the rest of the year to make up losses incurred in the first half, Xi was quoted as saying.

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