My decade-long experience of covering the two annual sessions of the country's top political advisory and legislative bodies has numbed my initial excitement at seeing pretty ethnic minority deputies in flamboyant traditional costumes, or celebrities chased by swarms of reporters outside the Great Hall of the People.
A senior Chinese lawmaker said on Wednesday that legislation requiring public officials to declare their personal assets is under consideration and seen as a move to prevent corruption and improve government transparency.
A Chinese legislative official said here Wednesday that the top lawmaking body would speed up legislation on "education and correction of illegal acts" this year in an effort to "reform and standardize" the country's reeducation through labor system.
Hong Kong could be used as a trial ground before the Chinese renminbi (RMB) leapfrogs to the international markets as a transaction currency, said a former central bank official in Beijing on Monday on the sidelines of the annual National People's Congress (NPC), the nation's top legislature.
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