Aerial panoramic photo taken on Sept. 12, 2020 shows the Houhai area in Nanshan District of Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province.
Ma Huijuan is an author living in the countryside of northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. In recent years, she published multiple books about the poverty alleviation stories in Xihaigu, a largely mountainous region in Ningxia once inflicted by deep poverty and labeled the "most unfit place for human settlement" by the United Nations in the 1970s.
China's top economic planner is confident that this year's social and economic development targets will be achieved under the support of macro policies and the efforts of market entities, said a press conference held during the "two sessions," or the annual sessions of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. In the first two months of this year, China's economy maintained momentum of steady recovery gained since the second quarter of 2020, said Ning Jizhe, vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) during the press conference.
BEIJING, March 10 (Xinhua) -- China's top political advisory body, the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, concluded its annual session on Wednesday, a day before the conclusion of the annual session of the National People's Congress. During the "two sessions," President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, joined national lawmakers and political advisors in deliberations and discussion on four occasions.
