The annual meetings - NPC (National People's Congress) and CPPCC (China People's Consultative Conference) - have placed China in the world's headlines yet again. Expert observers are searching for clues on how Beijing would craft its first year development for the 13th five-year plan.
China can consider starting construction of the China-Pakistan and China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railways this year as research has been completed, Zeng Cun, Party chief of Xinjiang's Kashgar prefecture, said.
China's foreign exchange reserves will not endlessly decrease and will be maintained at an appropriate level, said Yi Gang, vice-governor of the People's Bank of China.
NPC deputy speaks for migrant workers
China's economy had a "sanguine performance" last year, a senior regulator said Sunday on the sidelines of the annual parliamentary session.