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Despite a busy schedule at the two sessions, Dao Shuren has managed to stick to his daily Buddhist practices, meditating for half an hour in the morning and chanting scripture at night.

The 82-year-old lay Buddhist is the head of Yunnan province's Buddhist Association and has been a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the top political advisory body, for 20 years.