The top legislature plans to improve laws in the cultural sector as the country throws unprecedented weight behind the development of culture.
China continued to improve legislative work, revising and improving existing laws and striving to raise the quality of legislation, top legislator Wu Bangguo said.
The NPC Standing Committee deliberated 24 bills, legal interpretations and draft decisions on legal issues, passed 14 of them, and has presented four of them to this session for deliberation and approval.
China's increases in military spending in recent years have aroused the attention of both researchers and foreign countries.
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China is willing to share its unique experiences in water management and conservation.
Clauses that permit detention, arrest or surveillance of suspects at specific places, without informing their families, have been partially revised.
Employment challenges in China are growing due to an unbalanced job market and a large number of people seeking work.
Trade measures passed by the US Congress violated both US laws and World Trade Organization rules, Chen Deming, minister of commerce, said.
'China should not be blamed'
China faces huge employment challenges in 2012 brought by a large number of job seekers and the unbalanced job market, said Yin Weimin, minister of human resources and social security.
China's export and import growth is anticipated to slow to around 7 percent in the first two months of this year, Minister of Commerce Chen Deming said.
The United States must respect China's interests in the Asia-Pacific region, Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said as Washington tries to assert more influence in the area. US citizen arrested for illegal mapping