The annual sessions of China's top legislature and political advisory body this year have drawn much international attention.
In the Government Work Report he delivered to the fifth plenary session of the 12th National People's Congress, the country's top legislature, on March 5, Premier Li Keqiang said the central government must continue its efforts to simplify administrative procedures and delegate more power to lower-level governments and optimize services.
IN ORDER TO BETTER PROTECT its important ecological areas, China introduced a list of national key ecological functional zones in 2013. By September last year, the number of zones on the list was 676. However, many of the national key ecological functional zones are in poorer counties that need more financial assistance to manage and protect the zones. Beijing News on Tuesday commented:
THE GUANGDONG PROVINCIAL CONSUMERS' ASSOCIATION in South China has filed the country's first public interest lawsuit for consumers requesting compensation. It is seeking more than 10 million yuan ($1.44 million) from 20 defendants who sold substandard pork products to customers. Southern Metropolis Daily commented on Tuesday:
MINISTER OF EDUCATION Chen Baosheng said during a news conference on Sunday that China needs great masters like Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison as well as talents like Lu Ban, a famous carpenter about 2,000 years ago. Legal Evening News commented on Tuesday:
At a time when US and European leaders are losing confidence in the future, China's President Xi Jinping has boldly embraced it. This paradox, however, is the natural outgrowth of decades of successful economic policies in China contrasted with increasingly discredited and failed ones in the West.
During a recent closed-door seminar endorsed by Washington-based Hudson Institute and New Delhi-based Vivekananda International Foundation, scholars from both countries said cooperation between India, the United States and Japan is necessary to "face the Chinese assertiveness" in the strategic Indian Ocean and Pacific regions.
King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will pay a state visit to China from March 15 to 18.
The unprecedented ruling of the Republic of Korea's constitutional court on Friday made Park Geun-hye the first president to be removed from office after impeachment. The ROK has to complete a presidential by-election within 60 days, and the next president faces the formidable task of righting the wrongs of the Park administration.
The 11-day annual session of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, China's top political advisory body, offered a good chance for its more than 2,000 members to pool their professional experience and wisdom and put forward suggestions on the issues of greatest concern to the general public, which range from poverty relief to food safety to environmental protection.
According to Zhou Qiang, president of the Supreme People's Court, 1,076 criminal defendants were declared innocent last year, 37 more than in 2015, and 1,376 wrongful verdicts or sentences were changed on appeal.
MINISTER OF EDUCATION CHEN BAOSHENG answered questions from the media at a news conference during the fifth plenary session of the 12th National People's Congress, China's top legislature, on Sunday. A primary concern was how to better balance education resources among different provinces and regions, as well as between urban and rural areas. Southern Metropolis Daily comments:
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