The 56-year-old, from south China s Guangdong Province, is better known as "Sister Flower" online with about 700,000 followers on the Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo. In Chinese, people often use the word "sister" to describe a warm-hearted female neighbor.
Ahead of China s annual two sessions, a Chinese lawmaker called on the country to prepare pilot projects for resuming international tourism under the normalized COVID-19 prevention and control strategy in a bid to boost the economy and show the world a real China, after some Western media reports deliberately distorted and fabricated facts about China which exerted a serious negative influence on foreigners understanding of China.
Two sessions begin, showcase China s institutionalized substantial democracy
Wang Cong Published: Mar 05, 2021 12:02 AM
Chinese President Xi Jinping and other Chinese leaders attend the opening meeting of the fourth session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People s Political Consultative Conference at the Great Hall of the People on Thursday. Photo: Xinhua
China has formally entered the annual two sessions time Thursday as the country s top political advisory body Chinese People s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) kicked off. The National People s Congress (NPC), the top legislative body, will start Friday.
After the difficult and challenging year of 2020, the attendees of the two sessions found they are bearing greater responsibility and expectations to contribute to the country s economic recovery, further opening-up and reform and long-term growth plan.
Multiple representatives call for further loosening of family planning policy
Cao Siqi and Li Qiao Published: Mar 03, 2021 09:08 PM
Staff members bath babies in a postnatal confinement center in Hefei, capital of east China s Anhui Province, Dec. 1, 2017. About 17.23 million babies were born in 2017, of which 51 percent have an older sibling, according to the National Health and Family Planning Commission. However, the total number of births fell by about 630,000 compared with 2016 while percentage of the population aged over 60 rose from 16.7 percent in 2016 to 17.3 percent in 2017. (Xinhua/Liu Junxi)China s aging population has turned into such a big concern that several lawmakers and political advisors feel it is imperative to further relax the family planning policy by allowing Chinese couples to have a third child, and Chinese society is paying close attention as to whether the population policy will see some changes in this year s two sessions.