Li solicits suggestions for challenges ahead

This year will be more challenging than 2015, and the government will need to work together with non-Communist parties and associations for new ideas to lead the change, Premier Li Keqiang said while meeting with some 10 representatives of non-Communist parties during a symposium in Beijing on Monday morning.

The symposium was held to solicit suggestions from the parties on improving the draft of the Government Work Report and the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20). It was the first of three symposiums.

Li stressed at the meeting that the international context is growing more complicated and may affect China's economic development. Meanwhile, the nation has reached a crucial point of transition in changing its mode of economic development and industrial upgrading.