Highlights of the Sessions
- Misunderstandings have arisen from US opposition to a Chinese draft law asking US corporations to disclose their security-related data, a spokeswoman for the annual session of China's top legislature said on Wednesday.
- China on Thursday announced a 10.1-percent rise in its national defense budget in 2015, the lowest growth in five years as the country confronts mounting pressure in the face of an economic slowdown.
- China aims to hold this year's rise in the consumer price index (CPI) at around 3 percent, according to a government work report delivered by Premier Li Keqiang at the parliament's annual session Thursday.
- The Chinese government has noted the austere circumstances of the economy and will overcome difficulties with more pro-growth policy, Premier Li Keqiang said on Wednesday, ahead of a keynote speech to give the economic outlook for the year ahead.
- A total of 14 national political advisors were expelled due to corruption, said Yu Zhengsheng, China's top political advisor , on Tuesday.
- Unfazed by downward pressure on economy, China's top political advisor Yu Zhengsheng pledged Tuesday further efforts to help advance reforms at the start of the most important two weeks on China's political calendar this year.
- The Third Session of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the country's top political advisory body, opened Tuesday in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
- A spokesman for the third session of Chinese political advisory body used Internet slang to respond to reporters' questions at yesterday's press conference, provoking laughter and speculation.
- The Chinese government's stance on the constitutional reform in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) is "clear and consistent," a spokesman for the Chinese political advisory body said Monday.
- China's national political advisory body is no harbor for corrupt officials, its spokesman said Monday ahead of its annual session.
- The media center used for the annual sessions of China's top legislature and advisory body opened on Friday in Beijing's Media Center Hotel, with new efforts to provide journalists with better service.
- Chinese lawmakers on Friday asked for greater incentives for inventors in academia to commercially exploit their work.
- Chinese lawmakers began reviewing draft legislation for the country's first anti-terrorism law Wednesday, to better counter terrorist activities while protecting citizens' rights.
Highlights of the Sessions >>
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