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Xinhua: China's parliamentary sessions to draw global attention 01/03

Why is the international community so enthusiastic about China's parliamentary plenary sessions? The answer is simple: China and the world are relevant in development.

It is known to foreign experts that the annual parliamentary sessions are a vital window to look into China's social and economic development, and the policy signals sent by the sessions will play a significant role in shaping China's development and thus influencing the world at large.

Just as former French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin has put it, China's stability and development benefits the world.

At present, the global economic recovery has not yet stabilized and the developed countries have yet to come out of economic downturn, so China's policy orientation to be shown during the parliamentary sessions would allure eyes from all over the globe.

Dominique Strausse-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, once said that it was beyond all doubt that China would continue to play a vital role in boosting international and regional economic recovery.

Netizen: tamson 01/03

I just saw news that Chinese Prime Minister Wen has underlined that Chinese government will take measures to curb housing prices and building more low-price housing for people.

The housing price has become the primary issue of people's daily life. I really hope the coming NPC can produce real practical policies to curb the housing price and build more economically affordable housing for ordinary people. We also need NPC to pay more attention to health welfare in rural areas and immigrant workers. In China, hospital care and medicines are quite expensive. If you catch a cold, just an ordinary one, you will pay more than 100 yuan at some high-level hospitals.