Deepening Reforms
- Chairman of the National Council for Social Security Fund said on Wednesday that they would adopt a conservative investment approach for the management of local pension funds.
- The endangered Yangtze finless porpoise has about a decade until extinction unless it is elevated to the nation's top-class protected species list, national political advisers from Hubei province warned.
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Xinjiang to make record-high investments in transportation infrastructure
The Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region will invest heavily in more high-speed railways and highways to build a high-quality transportation network that can truly support the Belt and Road Initiative.
- Eligible couples are not all convinced about having a second baby, in spite of China's overall relaxation of a decades-long family planning policy last year.
- 2017 is a crucial year for supply-side structural reform. Revitalizing the real economy was listed as one of the four tasks for supply-side structural reform at the Central Economic Work Conference at the end of last year.
- China's working mothers have welcomed a proposal on the provision of public nursery services made at the annual two sessions in Beijing.
- 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.
- Playground standards to be updated; broad effort advised for moral training.
- One of the biggest jobs of "panda mama" Hou Rong in the past two decades was to increase the number of pandas as much as possible.
- China's first national park will develop rapidly this year, with stronger legal and financial support from Qinghai province, the top provincial official said on Wednesday.
- Families with a second child should enjoy subsidies, tax free or rebated individual income tax, said an NPC deputy.
- China hasn't approved any planting of GMO (genetically modified organism) grains, said a top agricultural official Tuesday.
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China guarantees education of rural students moving to cities
China has earmarked special funds for subsidizing the education of children who follow their parents to move from rural areas to cities.
- China should confirm the leverage ratios of State-owned enterprises by category and inject capital into those related to national welfare and security.
- Numerical targets to reduce coal and steel production capacity have, for the first time, been set in the annual Chinese government work report.
