Sun Ping, a Peking Opera master and female member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), speaks to a China.org.cn reporter during a break of a panel discussion of the annual session of the CPPCC in Beijing, March 6, 2017. The International Women's Day falls on March 8, during the ongoing sessions of China's National People's Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). [Photo by Zhang Rui/China.org.cn]