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Key issues to watch at 'two sessions'

(Xinhua) Updated: 2014-02-28 16:47

-- URBANIZATION

China's ongoing urbanization process, if proceeded successfully, is deemed as a major growth driver to the economy.

In a high-level urbanization meeting last year, the country pledged proactive yet steady moves in pushing forward human-centered urbanization.

Although China's urban population exceeded its rural population for the first time last year, with city-dwellers accounting for 51.27 percent of the population, a considerable portion of them have no official city hukou.

-- RURAL REFORMS

China's rural reforms are of great significance in narrowing urban-rural divide and ensuring food security.

A key decision released after the Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China outlined a broad range of reforms in rural areas, including building a unified market for urban and rural construction land.

But the policy direction has stirred widespread misunderstandings. Analysts expect more detailed measures at the two sessions.

-- SOE REFORM

China's gigantic yet inefficient state-owned enterprises have long been complained of by the public. The key reform meeting last year has pledged to actively develop a mixed ownership economy to give private capital more access.

-- TRADE, FOREIGN POLICIES

China will hold several press conferences during the "two sessions", on which officials will clarify and elaborate the country's stance in various fields, including trade and foreign policies.

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