China's structural shift toward an economy based on innovation and knowledge and driven by domestic consumption and services should be key to discussions at this year's two sessions, said Danae Kyriakopoulou, who heads research at the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum, an independent think tank for central banking, economic policy and public investment.
Editor's note: During the two sessions, China Daily has collected questions from foreign netizens on what they care most about and solicited answers from experts, CPPCC National Committee members and NPC deputies.
Li Shouzhen, CPPCC National Committee member and senior official of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions
As an economics reporter covering the two sessions, I have got used to the scenario of journalists bustling around and chasing ministers, economists and businesspeople for a brief interview. Such "chases" happen so often that I had developed the illusion that the top legislative and political advisory sessions were solely about economic issues.
Premier Li Keqiang called on Shaanxi province to make the most of opportunities to further open up, as China promotes the Belt and Road Initiative, in a panel discussion of National People's Congress deputies from the province in Beijing on Thursday.
Lawmakers at all levels should have strong confidence in China's political system and better perform their duties in legislation and supervision, the country's top legislator said on Thursday.
Prior to 2011, kung fu, Jackie Chan and pandas were the images readers in the Arab world associated most with China, according to Ahmed Elsaid, an Egyptian publisher who operates from a base in the Ningxia Hui autonomous region.
Since March 2013, the Chinese public's passion for reading has undergone a big change.
Ma Huateng (Pony Ma), a deputy to the National People's Congress from Guangdong and chairman of Tencent
China's judicial authorities have taken measures to prevent corruption and abuse of judicial power after they were given more room to offer leniency to those willing to plead guilty, a senior legislator said on Thursday.
With massive spending on foreign stars by Chinese soccer clubs impressing the world, insiders have called for more focus on the cultivation of young talent to breed the country's own counterparts of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
Seeing more youngsters watch Peking Opera in recent years has made everything that she did for the art and the industry's development worthwhile, said Wang Rongrong, a deputy to the National People's Congress.
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