Deputies to the National People's Congress from Jiangsu province said on Tuesday they have been greatly encouraged by President Xi Jinping's responses to their briefings on the achievements made in different sectors.
China should integrate long-term care as a distinct category into its Social Insurance Law to foster high-quality development of the elderly care industry, said a national legislator on Tuesday.
As artificial intelligence takes the world by storm, efforts are needed in China to draft a national plan to boost the development of artificial general intelligence, the latest tech frontier that is a key part of new quality productive forces, said a national legislator.
China's emphasis on developing new quality productive forces and advanced manufacturing by giving full play to the leading role of innovation, will enhance the resilience and competitiveness of its industrial and supply chains, and inject new impetus into the country's long-term economic growth, said national legislators and industry experts on Tuesday.
Singing a ballad in the Hezhe language, which faces extinction as it has no written script, Liu Lei, a deputy to the National People's Congress, called for cultural conservation for her native Hezhe ethnic group, a minority group mainly inhabiting Northeast China's Heilongjiang province.
NPC deputy Baima Cuo said in a recent interview with China Daily that accelerating the research on ancient Tibetan books and documents is of great significance for continuing the Chinese cultural context and helping the national rejuvenation.
Heritage professionals stressed the role of technology in the protection of cultural heritage at this year's first deputies' passage interview on Tuesday, just before the second session of the 14th National People's Congress.
A motion submitted to the top legislature this time last year fast-tracked a law's rollout with an aim to promote digital access for those with visual and hearing disabilities amid a fast-growing older population.