SHANGHAI has set a target to achieve economic growth of between 6.5 and 7 percent this year, which is the first in the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-20), Mayor Yang Xiong said yesterday at the annual session of the Shanghai People's Congress.

"The city will embrace the concepts of innovative, coordinated, green, open and shared development, and adapt to the 'new normal' of economic growth," the mayor said while delivering the government's annual work report.

"We will continue the process of reform and opening up," he told more than 870 lawmakers.