China: Beijing has this week unveiled a raft of measures to boost its ailing economy, which it has targeted to grow five percent this year -- an objective analysts say is optimistic given the many headwinds it faces.

Chinese leaders pledged on Thursday to push to hit the 2024 economic growth target and stop declines in the housing market, state media reported, citing a Politburo meeting. Two days after authorities unveiled the country's biggest stimulus since the pandemic to pull the economy out of its slump,