I have lost track of how many times I've covered the two sessions - the country's annual political high season that usually falls in early March. In recent years, I have found my job getting easier as the sessions became more open to reporters.
Investment growing easier, especially for participants of Belt and Road Initiative, Ren Xiaojin and Jing Shuiyu report.
There is much commentary and criticism in the Western media about China's constitutional amendment. Western concern is that China is not continuing on what the West thought would be an eventual and systematic transition toward "democratic institutions", as certain countries in the West have chosen to define them. In viewing Chinese politics from their own frame of reference, maybe these analysts are missing the bigger picture by narrowing the focus.
On March 8, Chung Euiyong, the national security advisor of the Republic of Korea, announced that the US President Donald Trump had agreed to talk with Kim Jong-un, leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. This represented a stunning breakthrough in Washington-Pyongyang relations, especially considering the increasing size of the US-DPRK military drills and the war of words between Trump and Kim in the past year.
The International Day of Action for Rivers has been celebrated across the world since 1997. Every year, on March 14, ordinary people raise awareness about the importance of healthy watersheds and the equitable and sustainable management of rivers.
Since the beginning of my mandate in Beijing, back in 2015, the political and economic ties between Italy and China have experienced a new momentum of growth. In 2017, in particular, the relations between Italy and China reached a turning point. President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella paid in February a state visit to the People's Republic of China. Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni attended the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation which took place in Beijing last May. We welcomed one delegation at the ministerial level from Italy every two months.
Among the tens of millions of messages posted online for British physicist Stephen Hawking, who died on Wednesday, the one most "liked" is: "The person who knows the most about stars has flown to the stars."
The recent visit to some African countries by Rex Tillerson, who was sacked as secretary of state by US President Donald Trump on Tuesday, appeared to have one major purpose: to arm twist African countries into abandoning the flourishing trade deals and ties with China. The statements Tillerson made on Africa-China relations were considered by many Africans as arrogant, undiplomatic, and abusive to African countries.
New faces often bring fresh ideas and new thoughts. The newly elected deputies and members to this year's two sessions have been put under the spotlight
I submitted two proposals this year. One was about medical reform and the other was about adapting scientific and technological breakthroughs to promote them in the marketplace.
I first visited Beijing about 30 years ago. I am deeply impressed with the changes in the capital since then.
The outsiders call my hometown in Metog county, the Tibet autonomous region, a retreat away from the world. As someone who grew up in the county surrounded by forest-covered mountains, I know what isolation means to the people who live there.
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