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Chinese leaders are meeting in Beijing to decide on an economic
growth target for the next five years. An official document is
expected to be published later on Thursday.
Bloomberg said Li's comments were made in a speech to Communist
Party members on Oct 23. They were circulating widely on Chinese
social media earlier on Thursday, but no mention of the comments
has appeared in state media.
China's most recent annual GDP target for 2015 stands at around
7 percent. The economy grew 6.9 percent in the third quarter
from a year earlier.
People are waiting for the announcement of the new growth target
as a sign of whether China plans to push on with aggressive
reform - which would likely result in slower growth - or seek to
maintain higher growth rates to guard against the risk of an
economic hard landing.
Chinese financial markets did not exhibit any reaction to the
rumors. Currency and stock markets were steady on Thursday.
(Reporting by Pete Sweeney; Editing by Neil Fullick)
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