Chinese Premier Li Keqiang started delivering a government work report on behalf of the State Council at the opening meeting of the first session of the 14th National People's Congress, held at the Great Hall of the People on Sunday morning.
The preparatory meeting of the first session of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) on Saturday adopted the following agenda for the session.
The 14th National People's Congress will open its first session on Sunday morning in Beijing and conclude on March 13 after running for eight-and-a-half-day, Wang Chao, the spokesman for the session, told a news conference on Saturday.
The National People's Congress, the top legislature, held a news conference on Saturday, one day ahead of the opening of its annual session.
Deputies to the National People's Congress are broadly representative and is a good practice of China's whole-process democracy, said a spokesperson on Saturday.
The legislative planning work of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress has started and it is collecting legislative items from all sectors, said Wang Chao, spokesman of the first session of the 14th NPC, on Saturday.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and the State Council adopted a decision on improving birth policies in July 2021 to promote long-term and balanced demographic development.
The Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) concluded its 39th session in Beijing on Friday.