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- Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Thursday urged all-out efforts to maintain ethnic unity and long-term stability through development in Xinjiang when joining a panel deliberation with national lawmakers from the northwestern region.
- China's industrial robot market boasts enormous potential and needs more government support to ensure rapid and reasonable growth, a national lawmaker said.
- China has urged all parties to stop "provocative actions" and maintain calm and restraint to prevent tension from escalating on the Korean Peninsula.
• N. Korea leader orders nuclear weapons readiness
• DPRK fires 2 short-range missiles into East Sea
• S. Korea, US kick off largest-ever war games
- China has made up its mind to boost the domestic aero-engine industry as a state-level major project, targeting to relieve the nation from its lasting pain in the "heart of plane" and economic pressures.
- China's 13th Five-Year Plan concerns more than just its own domestic affairs. The world should sit up and pay attention: it will have a global impact, analysts said.
- Chinese President Xi Jinping called for greater efforts in eco-system protection and poverty relief in the country's ethnic regions Thursday.
- Parts of the 110-year-old Beijing Zoo may be relocated to improve the living conditions of the animals and ease traffic jams for visitors, an official said on the sidelines of the ongoing legislative sessions.
Psychology matters in human loss to AlphaGo
Psychological factors played a role in a Go champion's recent loss to AlphaGo, in their first face-off, an historic five-game match, said Chang Zhenming, former president of the International Go Federation in Beijing on Wednesday.
• Chinese Go grandmaster confident of beating Google's AI
• Google's AlphaGo defeats Lee again
- Bidding for construction of China's second polar research ship will start by the end of April and the new vessel will boast stronger icebreaking capabilities, said a senior official with one of the country's largest shipbuilders.
- A senior lawmaker said on Thursday that China is working on a law to tackle a "grave situation in the soil environment," which will join existing laws on air and water quality to fight rampant pollution.
- China has completed a draft version of the country's first e-commerce law to guide the sector's sound development, a lawmaker said Thursday.
- Li Xiaojian has worked manual jobs for more than 40 years, doing everything from harvesting wheat to driving a truck. What he is most proud of is that his son graduated from college and found a white-collar job four years ago.
- "Made in China" has once again become a point of interest at the ongoing annual session of the National People's Congress as deputies sit down to talk about how to promote China's manufacturing industry through innovation.
- There is no better place to watch the media war to cover the "two sessions" than a passage near the northern gate of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing when China's top legislature and political advisory body convene annually.
- Lawmakers are debating new legislation to encourage the development of the charitable sector and repair a tarnished image.
Highlights of the Sessions >>
- Full text: Work report of NPC Standing Committee
- Full text: Report on China's economic, social development plan
- Full text: Report on China's central, local budgets
- Full text: Report on the Work of the Government
- Highlights of work reports from SPC and SPP
- Xi orders breakthrough in military theory
