My decade-long experience of covering the two annual sessions of the country's top political advisory and legislative bodies has numbed my initial excitement at seeing pretty ethnic minority deputies in flamboyant traditional costumes, or celebrities chased by swarms of reporters outside the Great Hall of the People.

The number of faulty convictions in China last year accounted for 11,669 cases, 0.18 percent of all retrials.

For the first time, China Daily is able to use a media studio in the Great Hall of the People for the duration of the NPC and CPPCC sessions.

A senior Chinese lawmaker said on Wednesday that legislation requiring public officials to declare their personal assets is under consideration and seen as a move to prevent corruption and improve government transparency.

A Chinese legislative official said here Wednesday that the top lawmaking body would speed up legislation on "education and correction of illegal acts" this year in an effort to "reform and standardize" the country's reeducation through labor system.

Knowing who's who is a huge challenge for reporters following the NPC. The delegate who walks past you might be a mayor or a general.

Hong Kong could be used as a trial ground before the Chinese renminbi (RMB) leapfrogs to the international markets as a transaction currency, said a former central bank official in Beijing on Monday on the sidelines of the annual National People's Congress (NPC), the nation's top legislature.

The details of a plan to subsidize private purchases of electronic motor cars will be released after the "two conferences".

The Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Company made a net profit of 2.1 billion yuan ($307.62 million) in 2009 amid the continuing global economic crisis.

The China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (FTA) benefits countries on both sides, Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming said Saturday.