Chinese Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Han Changfu's comments on China's grain storage, made on the sidelines of the ongoing two sessions on Friday, have stirred discussion on China's microblog platform Weibo on Saturday.
China has the "absolute capacity" and confidence to accomplish its poverty alleviation goal in 2020 despite pressure from the COVID-19, as 95 percent of it has been achieved, experts say, as the Government Work Report reaffirmed the country's commitment to bring all residents out of poverty this year.
China plans to further cut taxes and fees paid by corporations by 2.5 trillion yuan ($353 billion) this year, up 25 percent from last year's target, signaling the country's strong support for smaller firms as they recover from the fallout of #COVID19.
China's goal to create 9 million jobs and keep the inflation rate at 3.5 percent reflects the pragmatic view of the challenges faced by the country amid the COVID-19 pandemic and urgency among policymakers to address issues such as unemployment and rising consumer prices, Chinese experts said on Friday.
I have attended the opening ceremony of the two sessions for at least two years, and I look forward to an effective meeting with valuable proposals from this year's two sessions.
I will attend the two sessions. I think it is a good example of the progress that China has had in the containment of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chinese political advisors attending the ongoing two sessions have proposed speeding up the enactment of the food law to better regulate the order of grain circulation and ensure food security.
Amid the continuously dropping birth rate and mounting pressure from an ageing society, Chinese legislators and political advisors have proposed allowing families to have a third child and called for better protection of economic rights for women who have children.
Some US politicians out of political purposes have hyped that the novel coronavirus came from China to shift the blame due to ideological bias, and their attempts are doomed to fail, said Guo Weimin, spokesperson of the third annual session of the 13th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference National Committee at a press conference on Wednesday.
Foreign business representatives have high expectations of China's upcoming two sessions as they hope to see strong government measures to support China's return to economic growth.