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- Chinese authorities are beefing up quality supervision for goods sold online amid increasing e-commerce activities in the country, said an official from the quality and inspection regulator in Beijing on March. 14.
- China will see severe climatic conditions in 2017, with southern regions experiencing more rainfall and northern parts facing greater chances of drought, and the possibility of more typhoons, according to preliminary forecasts from the national meteorological authority on Wednesday.
- President Xi Jinping has brought his own thinking to bear on problems down the road, especially after a year of tumultuous global events.
- Quality inspectors step up search for substandard, fake goods on internet.
- Six million substandard urban houses will be rebuilt this year, Chen Zhenggao, head of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development said on Wednesday.
- Lu Yu of the Sino-U.S. Times newspaper is covering China's annual national legislative and political consultative sessions. He tries to actively participate in every press conference and open panel discussion.
- The presidium for the fifth session of the 12th National People's Congress (NPC), China's national legislature, decided to put 11 documents to vote at the session's closing meeting on Wednesday.
- During China's annual parliamentary and political advisory sessions, discussions are not just confined to domestic issues, but also focus on China's active involvement in global governance.
- China.org.cn's full coverage of the press conference held by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at the Great Hall of the People immediately after this year’s NPC session concludes.
- Eligible couples are not all convinced about having a second baby, in spite of China's overall relaxation of a decades-long family planning policy last year.
- China's working mothers have welcomed a proposal on the provision of public nursery services made at the annual two sessions in Beijing.
- The misuse of halal labels in the Ningxia Hui autonomous region, though not yet widespread, must be curbed, the region's top official said.
- The Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate presented work reports to about 3,000 national legislators at the meeting.
- "I'm a deputy from the grassroots, and I need to bring their voices to Beijing." It's a responsibility that Yang Juanjuan, a deputy to the National People's Congress takes seriously.
