Editor's note: In the past three years, President Xi Jinping has attended panel discussions 15 times and talked with lawmakers from 10 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, as well as the People's Liberation Army. The discussions focused on a range of major issues involving the reform and innovation, party build up, environment protection and poverty alleviation. Let's take a look at his meetings.

Chinese President Xi Jinping (C), also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, joins the panel discussion with National People's Congress (NPC) deputies from Shanghai during the third session of the 12th NPC, in Beijing, March 5, 2015. [Photo/People's Daily Online]

Delegation: Shanghai

Time: March 5, 2015

Summary: We should speed up transferring governmental function, set the pilot zone as a leading example, eye high international standards for trade and investment, and make institutional innovation a strong impetus for development.

We must break through the system and mechanism barriers to innovation, face the main battlefield of economic and social development, build up the innovative chain over the industrial chain, eliminate the phenomenon of "isolated island" in the scientific innovation, and make innovative achievements become practical production forces faster.