Rising awareness to perform duties

My decade-long experience of covering the two annual sessions of the country's top political advisory and legislative bodies has numbed my initial excitement at seeing pretty ethnic minority deputies in flamboyant traditional costumes, or celebrities chased by swarms of reporters outside the Great Hall of the People.

But I am really impressed by the increasing awareness of National People's Congress (NPC) lawmakers and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) advisors to perform their duties.

Many Chinese viewers and readers are used to NPC deputies piling praise on the government's work report, which usually summarizes the government's work in the past year and reveals plans of the next. The premier presents the report at the opening full session of the NPC.