Highlights of the two sessions today： the opening of the National People’s Congress Li Keqiang made a government work report.
On the morning of March 4th, the first session of the 13th National People’s Congress held a preparatory meeting in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The meeting elected the Presidium and Secretary-General of the First Session of the 13th National People’s Congress, and adopted the agenda of the First Session of the 13th National People’s Congress. China News Service reporter Liu Zhenshe Liu Zhenshe
BEIJING, Beijing, March 5 (Xinhua) The first session of the 13th National People’s Congress will open this morning, and Li Keqiang, Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China will give a report on government work.
The NPC session opened at 9: 00 today.
According to the published schedule, the first session of the 13th National People’s Congress opened at 9: 00 this morning in the Great Hall of the People. Today’s agenda includes:
Listen to Li Keqiang, Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China’s report on government work;
Review the State Council’s report on the implementation of the national economic and social development plan for 2017 and the draft national economic and social development plan for 2018;
Review the State Council’s report on the implementation of the central and local budgets in 2017 and the draft central and local budgets in 2018;
Wang Chen, Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC), explained the draft amendment to the Constitution of People’s Republic of China (PRC).
In the afternoon, the delegations held a plenary meeting to review the government work report.
The duration is 15 days and there are 14 press conferences.
On the morning of the 4th, a press conference was held at the first session of the 13th National People’s Congress. Zhang Yesui, spokesman of the conference, introduced that the conference had 10 agendas and closed on the morning of March 20th, with a duration of 15 and a half days.
According to reports, there will be 14 press conferences during this session of the National People’s Congress, in which the heads of the special committees of the National People’s Congress and the working bodies of the Standing Committee will be invited to answer the questions of Chinese and foreign journalists on the legislative work and supervision work of the National People’s Congress, and the main heads of relevant ministries and commissions in the State Council will be invited to answer the hot issues of concern to the people in economic and social development.
In addition, on the morning of 20th, after the closing of the conference, the new Premier the State Council will meet with Chinese and foreign journalists in the Golden Hall on the 3rd floor of the Great Hall of the People and answer questions, accompanied by vice premiers.
Open the "representative channel" for the first time
According to the arrangement, before the opening meeting of the conference, today is 8:05— At 8:45, the first "Delegate Channel" centralized interview activity was held in the north side of the Central Hall of the Great Hall of the People, and 10 NPC deputies were invited to be interviewed.
The list of delegates attending the first "Delegate Channel" is as follows:
Ma Huateng (Chairman and CEO of Tencent Computer System Co., Ltd., Guangdong delegation)
Wang Yaping (deputy division astronaut of China People’s Liberation Army Astronaut Brigade, delegation of PLA and Armed Police Force)
Xu Liyi (Deputy Secretary and Mayor of Hangzhou Municipal Committee of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang delegation)
Guo Fenglian (Secretary of the General Party Branch of Dazhai Village, Dazhai Town, Xiyang County, Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province, Shanxi delegation)
Gong Baoxiong (Party branch secretary of Liangjiahe Village, Wen ‘anyi Town, Yanchuan County, Shaanxi Province, Shaanxi delegation)
Yang Changqin (farmer in ethnic village, Datong Town, Chishui City, Guizhou Province, head of Chishui Hand-held Bamboo Art Development Co., Ltd., Guizhou delegation)
Zuo Xiangyun (villager from Shenshan Village, Mao Ping Township, Jinggangshan City, Jiangxi Province, Jiangxi delegation)
Chen Hong (Party Secretary and Chairman of Shanghai Automotive Group Co., Ltd., Shanghai delegation)
Wang Jianqing (monitor of "Wang Taoban" in the first workshop of the General Assembly Plant of Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle Co., Ltd., Hubei delegation)
Kuoray (Chief fitter and chief skill expert of CRRC Qingdao Sifang Locomotive & Rolling Stock Co., Ltd., Shandong delegation)
In addition to the "representative channel", the "ministerial channel" has also attracted much attention.
According to reports, the conference will continue to invite the principals of various ministries and commissions in the State Council who attend the meeting as nonvoting delegates to be interviewed by the media in the ministerial corridor of the North Hall of the Great Hall of the People, to interpret the government work report and relevant policies, and to respond to social concerns. (End)