Chinese President Xi Jinping on March 6 stressed the need to stay calm, maintain resolve, pursue progress while ensuring stability, take active steps, unite as one and have the courage to fight as the country faces profound and complex changes in both the domestic and international landscape. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks when visiting national political advisors from the China National Democratic Construction Association and the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, who are attending the first session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).
The 14th National People's Congress (NPC), China's national legislature, opened its first session at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 5. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang delivered a government work report at the meeting on behalf of the State Council, reviewing the government's work in 2022 and the past five years and laying out key objectives for development in 2023.
The State Council Information Office held a press conference in Beijing on March 6 about promoting high-quality development to set the stage for building a modern socialist country in all respects. Zhao Chenxin, vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), outlined China's remarkable economic performance in 2022.
BEIJING, March 8 (Xinhua) -- The reform of China's State Council institutions is an important step in enhancing the capacity and efficiency of governance, so as to accomplish new tasks in building a modern socialist country amid a complicated global environment. The reform plan, which was submitted to the ongoing first session of the 14th National People's Congress for deliberation, focuses on solving some difficult problems of public concern and will have a major impact on economic and social development.
