How CPPCC proposals change our lives: Five-day workweek
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Do you feel exhausted after working eight hours a day, five days a week? Did you know Chinese people worked six days a week before 1994?
How did China make the transition to the five-day workweek? Here is that story.
This is the first episode of our five-episode 2020 two sessions special: Proposals to the CPPCC National Committee: Ways to advise and impact China.
Each session of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the nation's top political advisory body, has received many notable suggestions and proposals from its members. Some have made it into reality, and exerted a big influence on people's lives and the nation's development. Here are five of the most important ones in everyday life.
- Global influencers explore beer city at Qingdao WCNA
- Heavy rainstorm leaves three dead, four missing in Hebei resort
- Ethnic integration on the grassland
- China renews alerts for rainstorms, high temperature
- Beijing restores power, communications, water-supply to flood-hit villages
- Helicopter sightseeing project takes off over Wuliangsu Lake