“GO FORWARD BRAVELY”
Speaking to media, representatives were uniform in their praise for the government.
Li Dexiang, representing southwestern Guizhou province, told AFP he believed the “government has a good grasp of reality”.
Delegate from eastern Jiangsu province Lyu Caixia said the experience of the parliamentary meeting “pushes one to go forward bravely”.
“We are accelerating high quality development … all the way to the highest levels (of government),” she added.
And Ling Youshi, a delegate from the semi-autonomous city of Hong Kong, said she had experienced the “rigour of deliberating legislation” during her time at the so-called “Two Sessions”.
The tightly choreographed event capped a week of high-level meetings that have been dominated by the economy, which last year posted some of its slowest growth in years.
On Saturday, ministers pledged to do more to boost employment and stabilise the country’s troubled property market.
“Workers face some challenges and problems in employment, and more effort needs to be made to stabilise employment,” Wang Xiaoping, minister of human resources and social security, told a press conference.
Housing minister Ni Hong added that fixing the property market – which long accounted for around a quarter of China’s economy – remained “very difficult”.
Source: CNA
