Presidium of China’s annual legislative session holds 2nd meeting
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
Zhao Leji, executive chairman of the presidium of the third session of the 14th National People’s Congress (NPC), presides over the second meeting of the presidium at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 8, 2025.
The presidium of the third session of the 14th National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s national legislature, held its second meeting Saturday.
Zhao Leji, executive chairman of the presidium, presided over the meeting.
The meeting decided to submit multiple documents to lawmakers for deliberation.
The documents include draft resolutions on the government work report, on the national economic and social development plan report and the plan for 2025, and on the central and local budgets report and the budgets for 2025.
The documents also include a draft decision on amending the Law on Deputies to the National People’s Congress and to the Local People’s Congresses at Various Levels.
The presidium’s executive chairpersons met before the meeting to prepare the documents.
The executive chairpersons meeting was presided over by Zhao, who is also chairman of the NPC Standing Committee. ■
Zhao Leji, executive chairman of the presidium of the third session of the 14th National People’s Congress (NPC) and chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, presides over the first meeting of executive chairpersons of the presidium at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 8, 2025. (Xinhua/Gao Jie)
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
