13th Five-Year Plan
- China expects an average annual economic growth of above 6.5 percent from 2016 to 2020.
- The construction of a mothership for China's first deep-sea submersible has been completed at a shipyard in Zhejiang Province.
- A Chinese rocket scientist said 110 Chinese-made Long March rockets will take to the skies over the next five years.
- China has set a target of building around 30 nuclear power units in countries along the Belt and Road Initiative routes by 2030.
- China's 13th five-year plan, to be reviewed at the upcoming parliamentary session, will be "good news" to HK and Macao.
- China will make stable employment a priority as structural reform puts pressure on the job market, said Vice Premier Ma Kai.
- China will gradually raise its statutory retirement age over the coming years in a bid to combat the effects of an aging population.
- Chinese courts have been asked to make the hearing of cases a priority and increase efforts to avoid wrongful verdicts.
- Authorities have rushed to defend and clarify a controversial policy that has drawn wide criticism.
- Chinese leaders have called for more to be done to facilitate "new-type urbanization" in 2016.
- China vowed to stabilize and improve macro economic policies to build a stable environment for structural reforms.
- More public institutions will have greener fleets by 2020, the central authority said Thursday.
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
