China accomplished the year's main task and targets for economic and social development, and got the 13th Five-Year Plan off to a great start.
As the National People's Congress, the country's top legislature, opens its annual session on Sunday, here is a selection of ministers' comments on important policies from the famous "minister passage" at the two sessions.
Fixed-asset investment is expected to expand by 9 percent in 2017, according to the draft plan for national economic and social development released on Sunday.
The dairy sector has reached new heights with the development of large-scale farms and use of machinery after the 2008 milk scandal, Agriculture Minister Han Changfu said on Sunday.
"Impoverished counties" can still benefit from poverty-alleviation policies for a certain period after they have been lifted out poverty, Liu Yongfu, head of the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, said on Sunday.
China will continue to pursue a prudent and neutral monetary policy this year, with the M2 money supply and aggregate financing forecast to grow by around 12 percent, Premier Li Keqiang said in the Government Work Report on Sunday.
China witnessed steady and healthy economic growth last year, the nation's top economic planner said on Sunday.
