Lawmakers and political advisors from China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) highlighted Saturday the democratic development in Hong Kong while calling for support for universal suffrage in the international financial hub in 2017.
The government should come up with policies and regulations to ensure gender equality in employment, said National People's Congress deputies at a press conference in Beijing.
A national political adviser proposed to raise the price of cigarettes and the tobacco tax rate by 30 percent to reduce smoking.
A national legislator called for banning vulgar terms coined by Internet users, and passing law to protect Chinese characters.
China has the ability to achieve the manned lunar landing but has no plan to do it, says Zhou Jianping, chief designer of China's manned space program.
China will rely more on new technologies in future to maintain the vitality of the manufacturing sector.
Writer Ling Jiefang, better known by his pen name February River, has a large number of readers and fans. Among them is Wang Qishan, head of the top anti-graft watchdog.
Though his pen name "Mo Yan" means "don't speak", the Nobel laureate had plenty to say about traditional culture and preschool education at the annual session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
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