Former star hurdler Liu Xiang has called for placing greater importance on physical education to improve students' declining fitness.
E-commerce has expanded rapidly in the rural parts of Jiangxi province as operations and service centers spring up across the countryside, according to Gui Qianjin, a deputy of the National People's Congress.
China has pledged to enhance its protection of wildlife species in the next five years, especially those endangered by threats of poaching and fragmented habitat, including the giant panda, African elephant and Siberian tiger.
Ma Huateng, founder, chairman and CEO of Tencent Holdings, will make five suggestions at the National People's Congress annual session, which opens on Saturday, in areas including the development of a sharing economy, Internet-based medical services and security of the Internet ecosystem.
For David Dollar, a senior fellow at the John L. Thornton China Center of the Brookings Institution, the NPC/CPPCC session is a good opportunity for China to fine-tune its policies.
As the annual sessions of the top legislative body and political advisory body continue, China Daily collected the questions that netizens care most about and solicited answers from political advisers and legislators.
I have been working for China Daily for six years and have conducted interviews at the annual two sessions three times.
We should increase the appeal of Peking Opera to the public, especially children. When they get access to the opera when they are young, they naturally fall in love with it when they grow up. More focus should be placed upon the inspirational and educational functions of the traditional opera upon the younger generation.
The spokesman for the annual session of China's top political advisory body denounced the mob violence that he said was intended to "mess things up" in Hong Kong during the Lunar New Year holiday last month.
The Ministry of Commerce said on Wednesday that it plans to submit the draft of a foreign investment law to the National People's Congress, the country's legislative body, by the end of this year to further ease restrictions on foreign investors and grant them easier access to the Chinese market.
Smog will linger and worsen to hazardous levels in many northern cities, including Beijing, until Friday night, when wind will disperse the pollutants, the national environmental authority said on Wednesday.
The occurrence of worker layoffs amid China's efforts to cut overcapacity won't affect people's hope for more children, the spokesman for China's national political advisory body said on Wednesday.
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