The road that runs alongside Shenjiamen port is packed with seafood restaurants that, along with the yachts that fill the marinas, dominate the view of this part of Zhoushan, an island city in Zhejiang province.
"Unfairness and corruption are two things the people hate most in our current society. We are applauding and holding up our hands in favor of anti-corruption measures. They are very necessary."
Huang Jiefu says he will stop anyone from smoking inside venues for the two sessions, the annual meetings of the National People's Congress and the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
In a bid to improve the nation's health, the National Health and Family Planning Commission has instructed doctors to ascertain if their patients have a history of smoking and to offer services designed to help smokers to kick the habit.
Zhongnanhai is not only in the center of Beijing, but is also the center of political power in China.
For four years, He Youlin, an educator and deputy to the National People's Congress, repeatedly proposed the relaxation of China's family planning policy.
As a deputy at the National People's Congress, He Youlin has handed in more than 40 proposals to the annual two sessions during the past six years, all of them related to livelihood issues. His public work has seen He, the principal of Sun Yat-sen Memorial Middle School in Zhongshan, Guangdong province, gain the nickname You Min Ge, meaning a man who worries about people's lives.
As the death toll from Saturday's terrorist attack at Kunming Railway Station in Yunnan province rose to 29 and the number of injured topped 130, the search for the perpetrators continued.
Wang Yu and his parents arrived at the square of Kunming Railway Station at around 9:20 pm on Saturday. They were waiting for a train that would take them home to Harbin in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang, when they saw a group of people dressed in black and wielding large knives.
My father phoned at 7 am on Sunday. "It's horrible! Dozens of people at a railway station were killed last night! Dozens! In Kunming!" he said.
Kunming is a favorite destination for foreign travelers and the city has a bubbling expat community.
"Fighting terrorism is a major challenge for every country and now we can see clearly that it is also a major goal of the Chinese authorities. Given the hidden nature of terrorism, it is a very difficult task to fight and prevent it, but the government should take firm action to root out terrorist activities and organizations. In the meantime, the authorities should offer as much information and communication as possible to the public as part of the efforts to fight and prevent similar attacks in the future."
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