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- China will select more than 2,000 new members next year for its top advisory body, the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
- China's State-owned enterprises should avoid irrational investments and trade financing activities for achieving scale, said the head of the country's SOE regulatory body on Monday.
- Shanghai has calculated how many cases a judge can handle per year to find a solution to the ongoing problem with judges' workloads, the city's top judge said on the sidelines of the ongoing two sessions.
- A pilot program that allows prosecutors to file public interest lawsuits has been a great help in protecting the public's rights in environmental and food and drug safety issues, and the top procuratorate is moving to make the practice into law.
- China's top political advisory body concluded its annual session on Monday, with more than 2,000 members participating in the 11-day session having provided 5,210 proposals for policymakers.
CPPCC 'whole-heartedly' upholds CPC Central Committee with Xi as core: Yu
Political advisors nationwide whole-heartedly uphold the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee with Xi Jinping as the core, Chinese top political advisor Yu Zhengsheng said Monday.
CPC holds consultative meeting on senior political advisor election
The CPC Central Committee said in a statement on Monday that the meeting was held on February 22. Entrusted by the CPC Central Committee, Yu Zhengsheng, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, presided over the meeting.
- A national political advisor said on Saturday in Beijing that China's stance remains clear regarding the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) and is working on solutions to the Korean Peninsula issues.
- Extremist terrorist groups are shifting their main targets from the Middle East – where they have suffered heavy losses – to other parts of the world, said Cheng Guoping, state commissioner for counterterrorism and security matters.
- A national political advisor believes the Belt and Road Initiative is a new model for joint efforts as Chinese enterprises explore collaborative opportunities abroad.
- Chen Kangping, a deputy to the National People's Congress and CEO of JinkoSolar Holding Co, has called on the central government to expand solar power generation in rural areas to tackle rural poverty.
- Chinese authorities have increased their efforts to crack down on telecom fraud after the crime became rampant last year following a series of high-profile cases which made headlines across the country.
- Curbing winter smog in the north has become a priority and challenge for air quality improvement, leading to harsh measures this year, the environmental minister said on Thursday.
- Leung Chun-ying, chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, was elected Monday vice chairman of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
- China should speed up establishing unified standards for monitoring and curbing air pollution, so that different regions can coordinate their antipollution efforts, experts say.
