NPC

Li Fei promoted to be new chairman of Basic Law Committee

20 Mar 2013

Li, who has a legal background, is expected to take up a major role in the forthcoming debate on Hong Kong's political reform, which will set out the rules for the 2016 Legislative Council...

5:02AM

Infographic: Who's who in China's new cabinet

18 Mar 2013

Premier Li Keqiang's team is expected to focus on narrowing the income gap, shifting a heavily investment-reliant economy to a more consumption-based one, as well as taming property prices.

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Chilling history lesson for 'no' voter in Xi election

15 Mar 2013

While an overwhelming 2,952 delegates voted yes for China’s newly elected President Xi Jinping on Thursday, the only “no” vote has attracted considerable attention and debate on

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Security steps up for petitioners as China parliament meets

11 Mar 2013

A few miles from China’s National People’s Congress in Beijing, citizens who have travelled from across the country to tell the government about their problems face tight controls on this age-old...

11:05PM

State council has no right to impose tax, says NPC deputy

9 Mar 2013

Zhao Dongling is not as famous as Jackie Chan and other celebrity NPC and CPPCC delegates attending sessions in Beijing this week. But her bold proposal to deprive China’s State Council of the...

2:07PM

Video: How much do foreigners know about Chinese politics?

8 Mar 2013

As the Chinese parliament and its political advisory body hold their annual gatherings this month, “lianghui” (or “two sessions” a collective name for both National People’s Congress and Chinese...

6:54PM

Opinion

Tom Holland

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

4:45AM

Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

5:26AM

Milk powder, GM food and pollution: Interesting quotes from NPC

"We must pay attention to the problems triggered by curbs on milk powder transportation and respond to people's concerns on the issue."

Yu Zhengsheng, Standing Committee member of the...

6:27PM

Hangzhou mayor Shao Zhanwei dies during NPC session

Shao Zhanwei, China’s NPC deputy and mayor of Hangzhou, died of a heart attack on Wednesday morning during the annual parliamentary session in Beijing, reported Xinhua state news agency.

3:06PM

Wen regrets not preventing his children doing business in China, reports say

Despite the 11 failures China’s outgoing premier Wen Jiabao openly acknowledged in his last work report on Tuesday, sources say he omitted another important

7:20PM

SOCIAL ISSUES

Activist's plan to legalise gay marriage submitted to NPC

“A [National People's Congress] member has brought the proposal to the parliament meeting, but only as a ‘suggestion’,” Li Yinhe said. On multiple occassions since 2003, she has entrusted NPC...

1:45PM

CONGRESS

China to hike budget deficit to 1.2tr yuan to stabilise growth

Besides running a record-high budget deficit, the economic tasks facing the new cabinet also include maintaining a GDP growth rate of 7.5 per cent, keeping inflation steady at 3.5 per cent and...

5:24AM

Wen devotes fewer words to Hong Kong, Macau at NPC

Wen dropped references to "developing the economy", "improving people's livelihoods" and "facilitating democracy" in the two cities, a feature of previous reports.

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