Media center opens doors to reporters

The media center for the upcoming annual sessions of the national legislature and top political advisory body opened on Tuesday to reporters from home and abroad.

The center said more than 3,000 journalists have registered to cover the two sessions - the plenary session of the National People's Congress and the plenary session of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. The CPPCC session will start on March 3 and NPC session on March 5.

For the first time, reporters will have a chance to interview NPC deputies along a newly planned "deputies' passage" in the Great Hall of the People, similar to the "ministers' passage" at previous sessions, said He Shaoren, director of the media center.