Why are the two sessions increasingly popular? (2)

China plays an increasingly important role

Bai Fengbin: The “two sessions” have attracted attention from all over the world also because China plays a more and more important role in the global stage. China has maintained a steady and rapid growth amid the sluggish global growth and has played a role of “engine” in dragging the world out of the mess of the current financial crisis. Considered as the window to observe China’s domestic affairs and foreign policy as well as the weather vane to predict China’s economic development, it is natural that the “two sessions” have become a continuous hot topic.

He Feng: The “two sessions” of 2013 will not only summarize China’s reform and development in the past but also set the goal of building a comprehensively well-off society. China is now faced with a complicated domestic and international situation. Not only Chinese people but also the world is keeping an eye on China’s policy orientation. The “two sessions” will attract more attention since they are known as the weather vane of China’s political and economic development.

Livelihood issues gain more responses

Bai Fengbin: Common people pay more and more attention to the two sessions because they have received an active response to their livelihood hopes. Education, health care, employment, housing, price of commodities, food safety, income distribution, environmental protection, etc. livelihood concerns are everywhere.

He Feng: Browsing through the government work report of recent years, it is found that the people’s livelihood issues are talked in more chapters and sections. Social security, pollution, and anti-corruption bid among other wildly concerned topics are reflected and responded in this year’s annual political sessions of CPPCC and NPC, “two sessions” that further promote the legislation in these areas.


Read the Chinese version: 两会为何越来越热, source: People's Daily, author: He Yong, Zhang Zhifeng, Yu Yang