China's regulators should be vigilant for financial risks and continue to push deleveraging to ensure healthy and steady economic growth, members of the country's top political advisory body said on Monday.
Local governments are providing jobs for impoverished rural residents by establishing a number of small businesses in villages. Ju Chuanjiang and Zhao Ruixue report from Juancheng county, Shandong province.
Sun Pishu, a deputy of the National People's Congress and chairman and CEO of Inspur Group, a provider of cloud computing and big data services
Similar to the poverty-alleviation workshops in Juancheng county, Mudan district in Heze, Shandong province, is developing greenhouses to provide jobs for local farmers.
The "workshop model" being promoted in Juancheng county, Shandong province, has not only enriched the material lives of local farmers, but also given them a sense of well-being.
Huang Youyi did not expect that people from the Economic, Social and Environmental Council, a constitutional consultative assembly in France, would ask him for the official French version of China's 13th Five-Year Plan when he was part of a Chinese delegation to Paris in May.
Zhang Lianqi, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a senior consultant with the Center for China and Globalization, a think tank in Beijing
Concerns about China's slowing growth rate may be overplayed, according to economists and analysts, who said long-term growth will be driven by industrial upgrades steered by changing patterns of domestic consumption and constantly rising consumer spending as a percentage of GDP.
Each year, China's most-experienced reporters, armed with the best broadcasting equipment and latest multimedia technologies, cover the annual sessions of the top legislature and advisory body in Beijing.
A top health and population expert has dismissed the suggestion of government subsidies for families raising a second-child, saying systematic policies targeting family development would work better.
China will continue to cut excess property inventory in smaller cities while increasing land supply to rein in surging housing prices, Premier Li Keqiang said on Sunday.
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