the growth target is now set at 7% a year, down from 7.5% in the previous blueprint. the previous five-year print is all about gaining weight. this five-year plan is probably much more about gaining muscle. reporter: but given the slow pace of change, not everyone is convinced the leadership here will sacrifice the double-digit growth that has created jobs for so many and kept them in power for decades. eunice yoon, cnn, beijing. we re going to take a short break in just a moment, returning to our coverage of the japanese disaster. cnn has several teams deployed across the quake zone in japan. we also have an army of ireporters who are showing us the extent of the destruction that they ve seen. we ll have some examples of their work in just a moment. george: hello mr. gecko! linda: so, we re such huge fans - george: of yours.and would be really honored. linda: .if you would marry us. me? linda: yea! you just seem so smart.so -
that it has claimed many, many lives. even though they found 15,000 people, 450,000 are in shelters and the death toll right now is still just under 1,900. we expect that number to rise. we hope that they ll be able to find many, many more people alive, but the elements are proving very, very challenging. yeah. i should say, by the way, the population was 18,000, not 8,000, 9,500 still missing. let aels talk about the shelters because they can t have a lot of food or water or much left for these people who were lucky enough to survive. absolutely. and we have seen ireporters sending in the images of the shelters and supermarkets in places like tokyo where the shelves are bare. there is nothing to get out of these places. water is running low, and basic necessities are running low. so in the shelters, as you see the pictures there, it is a scene of hardship. things are running out, and people are lucky to be alive. but they re now enduring a whole different set of difficulties there
cnn has been receiving incredible images from our ireporters in the quake zone. some even managed to capture the first terrible moments of the quake. and they sent it to us, and we ve been showing it to you. we put some of the very best sounds and images together, and we leave you this hour with a look. this is the biggest earthquake to date. we have earthquake right now. and this is actually moving. can you see the cracks moving? the crack is just moving.
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natural gas banging against each other. and that s when i said oh, my god, the building is going to fall. i said that just before, because it had never made that sound. it sounded like a shotgun or a freight train going off. just boom! so much more video like that. ireporters capture the devastation in japan. we ll get their firsthand account in a cnn special report tonight. remember, you can comment on any of the story that say we cover here. just go to our blog at cnn.com/don or you can follow us on facebook and four square.com. [ male announcer ] these keys open doors to opportunity.