AFP reports on the press conference that closed this year’s NPC/CPPCC session: In a closing press conference at the annual parliamentary meeting, Wen said his government faces the conflicting tasks of trying to create jobs...
China brings in a ringer, Wang Qishan (王岐山), to solve it’s problems with rapidly rising prices. From Bloomberg: Wang helped former Premier Zhu Rongji to tackle inflation that soared to as much as 27 percent in 1994. The...
China analyst Willy Lam writes on China Brief: The Chinese leadership at the ongoing National People’s Congress (NPC) has announced tough measures to rein in inflation and to promote government efficiency. In their talk to...
Qin Feng (秦楓), a reporter of Hong Kong based Phoenix TV blogged about her experience of covering NPC and CPPCC annual meetings this year, translated by CDT: The two meetings have been going on for ten days already. Following the...
From AFP, via Times of India: China’s parliament on Sunday re-elected Wen Jiabao as the nation’s premier for five more years, state-run Xinhua news agency said. Wen, 65, was the sole candidate for the job. Xinhua did...
From overseas website Boxun News, translated by CDT: Only a few months into the new year, and just after the Lantern Festival, petitioners from all over the country and provincial police officers have gathered en mass around...
Bloomberg reports the new appointment of Chinese top leaders: Xi Jinping, the son of an army veteran, was appointed today as China’s vice president, the next step in an orchestrated plan for him to succeed Hu Jintao as the...
Jonathan Ansfield’s most recent Biganzi dispatch: So great is the Great Hall of the People that there’s always room for a sideshow, even when the national legislature is in session. Last Friday at 8:50 a.m., a pack of...
From Xinhua: The number of lawyers participating in China’s current term of parliament and top political advisory body reached 22, an increase of 80 percent over the previous term, said Yu Ning, chairman of the All China...
While the annual CPPCC/NPC meetings are still underway in Beijing, and the capital’s police are busy controlling petitioners, Beijing-based blogger and former journalist Ling Cangzhou (凌沧洲) published an open letter online...
The National People’s Congress proposed creating a new Ministry of Housing and Construction as part of a ministry reshuffle. It would be the first ministry that specifically looks at housing needs. The new ministry would...
From AFP: The nominees for China’s president and prime minister were unveiled to the national parliament Wednesday, state media said, kicking off the nation’s communist-style election process. The nomination lists...
From Reuters: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Tuesday unveils a bureaucratic redesign that he hopes will foster greener, more efficient government by creating new “super ministries”. Yet with fierce rival interests at...
The following editorial is from Hong Kong’s Apple Daily, about the 17th Central Committee meeting held in Beijing on February 24. Although the commentary is a couple of weeks old now, it relates to the ongoing NPC session....
Telegraph blog makes suggestions on where you could go for a holiday during the long NPC period. The National People’s Congress is enough to make anyone want to go on holiday, and the Party Secretaries of China’s two...
A list of the richest 2008 NPC members who are listed on the Hurun Report of the wealthiest Chinese is being circulated in Chinese cyberspace. CDT translated some samples, from huangqiu.com: Zhang Yin & family – 2007...
Caijing’s managing editor, Hu Shuli, says, “judging from the report from the second plenum of the 17th CPC Central Committee, we can see how far-reaching the impact of this round of reform will be, and that its core...
Sohu blog introduces good-looking Chinese female reporters. I have no idea who brought up such a topic but it reminded me of my last job in Beijing. The news room I worked in mainly had female reporters. I used to be under...
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