The revised Red Cross Society Law will serve as a milestone for the reform and development of the Red Cross Society of China and promote the society's participation in humanitarian work, according to Wang Rupeng, vice-president of the RCSC.
The free-spending younger generation is fueling China's transition from an export-led economy to one driven by domestic consumption. Wang Yanfei reports.
The world can expect much from China's continuing championing of economic globalization, according to Jon Taylor, a China scholar and professor at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas.
A top health and population expert has dismissed the suggestion of government subsidies for families raising a second-child, saying systematic policies targeting family development would work better.
Foreign journalists' focus on the two sessions
Numerical targets to reduce coal and steel production capacity have, for the first time, been set in the annual Chinese government work report.
China's national legislature opens annual session
President Xi Jinping said China will continue to open up in all respects, particularly in further liberalizing and facilitating trade and investment, while calling on Sunday for Shanghai to take a leading role in deepening reform and boosting innovation.
China will take effective steps to strengthen environmental protection－especially in controlling air pollution－in 2017 to markedly reduce major airborne pollutants and "make our skies blue again", Premier Li Keqiang said on Sunday.
