As China plays a larger role on the global stage, the two sessions are becoming increasingly significant internationally, according to a senior academic in London.
China will dredge sections of the Yangtze River this year to deepen it and increase the amount of freight traffic that can use the waterway, a national legislator said recently.
Six million substandard urban houses will be rebuilt this year. China is able to meet the target because this year's tasks are better defined and we started earlier with stronger financial support. The government will offer more financial support to those who live in substandard urban houses to purchase existing homes rather than building new property, especially in third - and fourth-tier cities and counties.
Lu Yu of the Sino-US Times newspaper is covering China's annual national legislative and political consultative sessions. He tries to actively participate in every news conference and open panel discussion.
More than 30 percent of goods sold over the internet in China were found to be substandard last year, three times the proportion of products sold offline, Zhi Shuping, head of the country's top quality watchdog, said on Tuesday.
The percentage of Chinese exports to Africa found to be substandard dropped substantially, from 7.6 percent in 2014 to 3.2 percent last year. China has been working with 14 African countries for the past several years to fight exports of fake and poor quality goods. China also has trained over 1,000 personnel from African countries in quality supervision, inspection and quarantine issues in recent decades.
China's economy is unlikely to continue to grow at a sustainable pace without innovation playing a big part, according to a scholar at one of Britain's top technology and research institutes.
Editor's Note: During the ongoing two sessions, China Daily talked with some of the local legislators to see how their regions are connected with the Belt and Road Initiative
Work on three railways in Southwest China's Yunnan province, which will serve the Belt and Road Initiative, began in 2016 as the province builds logistics channels to Southeast Asia.
The central government should use more favorable policies to boost manufacturing in Shaanxi province, a key hub for the Belt and Road Initiative, national legislators from the province have suggested.
The Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region will invest heavily in more high-speed railways and highways to build a high-quality transportation network that can truly support the Belt and Road Initiative.
Cities around Beibu Gulf off South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region are building a transportation network to push forward the Belt and Road Initiative.
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