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Officials have no power except for the people
Premier Wen Jiabao answered Chinese and overseas journalists' questions on the concluding day of the National People's Congress annual session in the Great Hall of the People on Friday. Following is the full text of the questions and answers:
 · China's lawmakers adopt two landmark laws
 · NPC annual session holds closing meeting
 · 'Two sessions' highlight people's livelihood, democracy
 · CPPCC calls for social harmony
 · Premier Wen, we have some questions for you
 · Law 'needed for weapon research and production'
The US playwright Tennessee Williams once said that it was in our nature to distrust each other, as it was our only defense against betrayal.
In the Limelight

Property law:
Property law gets fine-tuned in latest round

 
· Landmark property law adopted
· China's lawmakers adopt two landmark laws

Corporate tax:
New corporate tax offers level playing field

 
· Parliament adopts enterprise income tax law
· Law not to affect foreign firms greatly

Financial reform:
China aims at mature capital market

 
· China to legislate on subsistence allowance
· Tax hinders consumer spending push
 
Slideshow

Nation faces grim job situation,24 million job seekers:

  
· Supportive forces for NPC/CPPCC
· NPC session focuses on social harmony
Video
 
· Building Internet culture in China
Agenda Today  
· Schedule· Press Conference· CPPCC· Unifed tax rate· Government work report
Photos  
Latest News  
· A nation's right to arm and defend itself
· Sound Bites
· Another job well done for deputies
· Succeeding against all odds
· New bid to ban smoking in public
· Wen's vision for China's bright future
· Equal rights, equal rules under new law
· Premier: World shouldn't fear China army
Opinion & Commentary  
· Tackle bureaucracy
· A nation's right to arm and defend itself
· A future 'as colorful and smooth as silk'
· Chinese gov't prickled by more lawmakers, advisors
· What's behind increase in the military budget
· All-out corruption fight
News Maker  
    Succeeding against all odds
As the legendary Chinese tale goes, even the old man people called a fool could move mountains 		 
    One deputy's tireless efforts
There is one startling thing you notice stepping inside Jiang Jian's hotel room: order within disorder.		  
    A man who gives a voice to the deaf
Yu Bing cannot hear or speak, but that does not stop him from offering comments or suggestions on the political and social issues of the day.		  
Key Reports
· Full Text: Report on China's central and local budgets
· Full Text: China's economic and social development plan
· Report on the Work of the Government [full text]
· 9 senior officials convicted for corruption in 2006
· Full Text: Work report of NPC Standing Committee
· China spends more on rural education
From Foreign Press
· China: Moves won't rattle markets
· Premier: World shouldn't fear China army
· China tax reform said ready for vote
· China looks to protect private property
· China to curb lending, investment
· China to focus on helping poor
· China plans big increase in military budget
· Wen puts emphasis on green growth
Backgrounder  
· NPC motions and CPPCC proposals
· Quick guide to the NPC and CPPCC
· The Standing Committee of the 10th NPC
· 10th CPPCC National Committee leadership
· Your quick guide to how NPC, CPPCC function
· Guide to NPC, the supreme legislature
· Officials have no power except for the people
· Spokespersons learn from premier
· Quotable quotes
· Premier's poems reflect optimism
· Wen wants visit to thaw 'ice'
· Wen's vision for China's bright future
First Scene  
    Zhao Huanxin
Wen's vision for China's bright future		  
    Cao Li
Equal rights, equal rules under new law		  
    Mu Qian
New bid to ban smoking in public		  
    Xie Chuanjiao
CPPCC calls for social harmony		  
Figures Matter  
· 391.7 billion: 2007 spending on agriculture
· 86 billion: Premier announces hefty educational investment
· 8%: GDP growth to slow down
· 4 Trillion: Revenue in central, local budgets
· 17.8%: Defense budget to rise in 2007
Tidbits  
    Shark fin dishes under attack
Take all shark fin dishes off the menu before the 2008 Olympic Games, a lawmaker proposed yesterday. 		 
    Lawmaker proposes taxation on dog ownership
Dog owners should be taxed to help dampen urbanites' enthusiasm in raising the pets as the fear of rabies is rising. 		 
    Impress Beijing Olympiad athletes with Chinese romance
An ancient folklore tells that fairy weaver Zhinu fell in love with and married cow herder Niulang, but they were separated by the Milky Way at the order of the Queen Mother of the Heaven. 		 
    Chinese fireworks too noisy, say advisers
Two political advisers are seeking to extinguish firecrackers during the Chinese New Year holiday. 		 

Question Session
After the NPC session is scheduled to conclude on March 16, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will hold a press conference in Beijing. Which of the following questions would you like to ask?

From our readers

 longer: This is a good even small step for both peoples to achieve some kind of mutual understanding.

 kennethchew: China must accelerate its spendings on defence, especially in the area of high-tech weaponry and R&D on outerspace technology if China is to be able to defence itself in any future war.

 Spend: China should spend and invest this money on many things China needs right now. One thing China needs is technology to control pollution and waste. China also needs energy technology.

 Ewald Widiner: I fully agree with Commerce minister Bo Xilai , my advice to the Chinese industry would be to counter this protectionism from the US and from the EU with quality,best achieved in educating and qualification of the workforce.

 Kris: I cannot understand why my country, Canada, has not sent him back.

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