Photo taken on April 13, 2020 shows night view in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province. (Xinhua/Wang Yuguo)
WUHAN, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Central China's Hubei Province, once hit hard by the COVID-19 epidemic, set its gross domestic product (GDP) growth target at more than 10 percent in 2021, Governor Wang Xiaodong said Sunday.
The province's GDP in 2020 recovered to over 95 percent of the previous year's level, Wang said while delivering a government work report at the annual session of the provincial legislature.
Hubei, the former epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak, had imposed a months-long lockdown on its cities last year, closing factories and businesses and restricting outbound traffic.
The province has not reported new locally transmitted COVID-19 confirmed cases since May 18 last year.
A job seeker is seen at a job fair held at Jianghan University in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, June 1, 2020. (Xinhua/Cheng Min)
Workers are busy on the production lines at the workshop of Dongfeng Passenger Vehicle Company in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, March 24, 2020. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)
Visitors learn about an autonomous aircraft on display at an exhibition during the "China 5G + Industrial Internet Conference" in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Nov. 19, 2020. (Xinhua/Cheng Min)
People visit a night market in Baocheng Road in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, June 1, 2020. (Xinhua/Xiong Qi)
Photo taken with a drone shows workers making canned mandarin oranges on an automated food production line in Zigui County, Yichang, central China's Hubei Province, Oct. 29, 2020. (Photo by Wang Gang/Xinhua)
People work at the construction site of a tunnel project in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, April 30, 2020. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)
A China-Europe freight train prepares to depart from Wujiashan railway container center station in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, May 9, 2020. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)■
