In the past few years, lawyer Gao Mingqin had been reluctant to come to Beijing for business trips due to the lingering smog in the capital. But the situation has changed since 2017.
All of the deputies to the 13th National People's Congress - 2,980 - have arrived in Beijing for the top legislature's first plenary session, which starts on Monday.
The second volume of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China has proved popular at the media center for the two sessions.
Political advisers have identified some of the key areas for legislators drawing up China's first property tax, including who will set the rates.
China has never used its overseas Chinese affairs activities to undermine the interests of other countries, the top official in charge of overseas Chinese affairs said on Saturday.
More inmates will be rehabilitated outside of prison with the aim of helping them return to society, an official of China's top justice authority said on Saturday.
The work backgrounds and types of people eligible for astronaut recruitment will change. Before, pilots from the People's Liberation Army Air Force were usually selected. But in the future, flight engineers and scientists in related industries, universities and institutions will be eligible to join the space program.
China's top political advisory body has given full support to its members from the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions to play active roles in their regional affairs while also engaging youth and boosting patriotism, the leading political adviser Yu Zhengsheng said on Saturday.
President Xi Jinping, also chairman of the Central Military Commission, called on Friday for deeper reform to boost civil-military integration in the new era.
China plans to launch a world-leading X-ray space telescope by 2025 to study the universe's most extreme and mysterious events, such as black holes, gamma ray bursts and the merging of neutron stars, scientists said on Friday.
Double standards and Cold War-era thinking are behind the recent voices alleging that China is boosting its publicity worldwide in order to impose "sharp power" on others, a spokesman for China's top political advisory body said.
China expressed grave concerns about the Office of the United States Trade Representative accusing China, in a trade policy document earlier this week, of adopting "hostile policies" in trade activities, according to the Ministry of Commerce and analysts in Beijing.
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