Twenty eight percent of students in Gansu province are studying in decrepit houses, said Chen Xueheng, former chairman of the Gansu Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
South China's Shenzhen, Guangdong province, aims to develop into "a city of volunteers" by recruiting a force of 1.1 million by 2015.
Chen Fei, dubbed "vegetable basket deputy" from Zhejiang province has distributed more than 7,000 baskets to deputies.
When Premier Wen Jiabao repeatedly mentioned raising income levels and improving social welfare on Monday, some people were happy, others not.
The central government has decided in its budget that government spending on education will account for 4 percent of the country's GDP this year.
Bo Xilai, a deputy of the 11th NPC and Party chief of Chongqing, called on Monday for urgent attention to the widening income gap in the country.
China's top traditional Chinese medicine official defended medicines made from bear bile, citing a lack of an effective substitute.
Interesting quotes from deputies.
As China works hard on its domestic sports industry, mass sports should not be neglected, says Chen Zhonghe, former coach of the Chinese national woman's volleyball team and the current vice-director of the Fujian provincial sports bureau.
Internet users have posted thousands of comments on a popular Chinese website in response to a proposal calling for an end to the decades-old tradition of honoring "three-good students",.
Charitable organizations should be allowed to make money and they should be supervised on using the money for public welfare, said Zhao Chao, deputy to the National People’s Congress.
The Ministry of Water Resources has approved construction of a dam on Poyang Lake. The authorities is evaluating the project's environmental impacts on China's largest freshwater lake.