US observer keeps close watch on two sessions

Joe Borich, president of the Washington State China Relations Council, is keeping a close eye on the two sessions, the annual political meetings in the country.

"China has made remarkable progress over the past 10 years with a four-fold increase in the size of its economy to become the world's second-largest, and the world's leading trading nation," he told China Daily.

"But the extraordinarily rapid pace of growth and development has created some contradictions for China that I hope the (two sessions) can begin to address," he said.