Editor's note: During the annual sessions, China Daily will collect questions foreign netizens care most about and solicit answers from experts, CPPCC National Committee members and NPC deputies.
China will take effective steps to strengthen environmental protection - especially in controlling air pollution - in 2017 to markedly reduce major airborne pollutants and "make our skies blue again", Premier Li Keqiang said on Sunday.
The world can expect much from China's continuing championing of economic globalization, according to Jon Taylor, a China scholar and professor at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas.
Many of the deputies and journalists who gathered in Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Sunday were happy to have their smartphones.
Liaoning province has drawn lessons from last year's election fraud scandal and has cleaned up its political environment, the province's top official said on Sunday.
China's top legislator expressed hope on Saturday that Hong Kong and Macao, two special administrative regions of China, can seize opportunities brought by the country's development while "safeguarding national interests" and making full use of the advantages of the central government's "One Country, Two Systems" policy.
China's consumer price index, a primary gauge of inflation, will fall into a reasonable range of 2 to 3 percent this year, meaning China will maintain its prudent and neutral monetary policy, Yi Gang, deputy governor of the People's Bank of China, China's central bank, said on Saturday.
A member of China's top political advisory body said on Saturday that China will increase the number of organ transplant centers to 500 within five years, from the current 169, to meet growing demand.
The tangible results of the development of the Belt and Road Initiative will generate new growth momentum this year. That will boost revenue growth for both global and Chinese companies while improving their abilities to conduct big-ticket projects and export excess industrial capacity to economies along the two trading routes, according to government officials and business leaders.
This year, globally minded Chinese infrastructure providers and manufacturers will earn decent dividends and reduce business risks by investing directly in markets covered by the Belt and Road Initiative, according to experts in international corporate and trading law.
As I checked in at a Beijing hotel the other day, my attention was caught by a massive world map on the wall behind the reception desk. What struck me was not its size, but the fact it was different from the maps I'd seen displayed in Europe.
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