In a government work report delivered by Premier Li Keqiang Thursday, China set the growth target at "around 7 percent" for 2015, or 0.5 percentage point lower than that of 2014.
"New normal" is a buzz word in 2014 and it will be the first appearance of the word at the two sessions since it became a guideline for Chinese leaders in economic policy-making.
The much-anticipated annual parliamentary sessions of China, dubbed as "two sessions", is expected to lay a foundation for further reforms as the world's second-largest economy actively adapts to the "new normal" of slower growth but higher quality economy, experts say.
China's upcoming annual legislative session is expected to see more reforms as economic weakening calls for renewed efforts of reviving growth engines.
The blueprints set at the recently concluded Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee are perhaps the most encouraging political progress in China in the past month.
The Party organization of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, the top legislature, must report issues concerning the formulation and revision of law to the CPC Central Committee, it added.
The latest gravity assigned by the Communist Party of China (CPC) to advance the rule of law in China in an all-round manner has been hailed by political and academic figures in the West.
Revisions to the Environmental Protection Law adopted by senior legislators could not have come at a better time.