Premier Li Keqiang called for steadfast support for development of the nonpublic economy, while offering equal treatment for all enterprises regardless of ownership.
A proposed new law on foreign investment would replace three existing ones and serve as the basic law for the field as the country continues to open up in the new era, an official of China's top legislature said.
A confrontational China-US relationship does not benefit anyone because the interests of the two countries are deeply interwoven, Zhang Yesui, spokesman for the annual session of the National People's Congress, said in Beijing on Monday.
China believes the Hanoi summit between Pyongyang and Washington was constructive and that such interaction will continue to be important in resolving the Korean Peninsula issue. China hopes Pyongyang and Washington, the key parties, will maintain good faith, remain patient and continue their dialogue in the right direction to achieve progress.
China has translated its commitment to advancing the building of a community with a shared future for mankind into concrete action since the concept was enshrined in the Constitution at last year's session of the National People's Congress, the nation's top legislature.
The National People's Congress will redouble its efforts to draft, revise and deliberate on laws concerning the environment, people's livelihoods and national security this year to provide better standards of living and effectively prevent risks, a spokesman for the country's top legislature said on Monday.
To Dimitar D. Gueorguiev, a big achievement in China's development since the start of reform and opening-up is "the Chinese government's decision to allow space for the Chinese people to pursue their own ambitions, and their own interests".
About a century ago, Chen Duxiu, one of the founders of the Communist Party of China, called for the people to use science to save the country from the dark ages. Science was also widely encouraged during the May Fourth Movement in 1919, a campaign that opposed imperialism and feudalism, thus changing the trajectory of contemporary Chinese history.
The second annual session of China's 13th National People's Congress comes at a testing time. National-level institutions like governments and parliaments across the world appear increasingly dwarfed by transnational and international bodies on one hand, and upstaged by global-scale, technology-rich, advertisement-and PR-boosted multinational corporations on the other.
China's Chang'e 4 unmanned lunar mission has been proceeding well and its scientific findings will be made available for free to anyone wishing to access them, according to a key figure in the nation's lunar program.
The role of museums as cultural heritage institutions tasked with securing and preserving cultural relics cannot be weakened, an official said.
Cutting-edge core technology should not be imported, but created and produced domestically, Shi Yigong, a well-known scientist and president of Westlake University, told reporters at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Sunday.
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