Why are “two sessions" held in March? (4)

[Proposal] Some members have suggested that the “two sessions" should open in January

So far, there is not yet unified and explicit legislation about the specific date of the opening of the “two sessions".

The last meeting of the Standing Committee of NPC in the previous year made a resolution that the timings of the NPC meetings shall be determined in the following year. Once the resolution has been made, it has the legal force and shall not be changed easily.

Constitutional scholar Cai Dingjian (deceased) had suggested that the convening dates of the people's congresses at all levels shall be explicitly stipulated in statutory form so that no special decision has to be made before the convening of each meeting and put an end to the arbitrariness of the convening of the meetings.

Zhang Mingsen, a member of the CPPCC National Committee submitted a proposal In 2010 and recommended that the convening dates of the “two sessions" at all levels shall be adjusted and that the national level conferences shall be shifted to an earlier date in late January or early February, so that the national-level conferences are held before the holding of local-level “two sessions".

The current situation is that most of the provincial “two sessions" are finished in January and February prior to the opening of national “two sessions".

In the opinion of Zhang Mingsen, such "national-after-local" mode makes it difficult for “two sessions" below provincial and municipal levels to make definite arrangements for the work of the year, because specific works are often pending to be re-determined after the conclusion of national “two sessions".

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