Leung Chun-ying, chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, was elected on Monday as vice-chairman of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Yuan Jinghua's brothers and sisters all got married before they were 20. Yuan, however, didn't get married until she was 25 as many young men were frightened away by her special "dowry": 45 deaf-mute children.
Shanghai has calculated how many cases a judge can handle per year to find a solution to the ongoing problem with judges' workloads, the city's top judge said on the sidelines of the ongoing two sessions.
Chief Justice Zhou Qiang and Procurator-General Cao Jianming delivered their annual work reports on Sunday reviewing the work of the judiciary sector in 2016. Among all the topics in the work reports of China's Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate, anti-corruption-related legal achievements grabbed the biggest headlines.
President Xi Jinping joined a panel discussion with lawmakers from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region during the annual session of the National People's Congress, the top legislature in Beijing.
The Va ethnic group living along the border with Myanmar in Yunnan province is one of the least known minority groups in the country. But their concerns and suggestions are heard thousands of kilometers away in Beijing thanks to NPC deputies' motions during the annual two sessions.
China's top political advisory body concludes annual session
Notable quotes from Premier Li’s panel discussions with NPC deputies
Leung Chun-ying, chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, was elected Monday vice-chairman of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
City-specific measures will continue to be used to help stabilize the healthy development of the housing market in cities at all levels, striking a balance between deleveraging purchases in key cities and reducing inventories in others, according to analysts.
