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'Sustainability' key for 2022 Winter Olympics

As the Olympic spotlight shifts to Beijing following the Games in Pyeongchang, the Chinese capital has beefed up efforts to produce a sustainable Winter Olympics in 2022, with its legacy underlined as a key requirement for post-Games success.

Teachers should be classified as civil servants: NPC deputy

Chinese Minister of Education Chen Baosheng has told the two sessions that the Chinese government is strengthening the construction of its teaching base.

More public, private kindergartens planned

China will quicken the pace of building more public kindergartens and inclusive private kindergartens to ensure that children obtain better and cheaper preschool education.

Deputies to verify laws, regulations are proper

China's top legislature will push for constitutional compliance inspections and better ways of reviewing documents this year－administrative rules, judicial interpretations, local laws and regulations－to ensure that they are consistent with the Constitution and the law, according to a work report delivered on Sunday.

China improves judicial services, ensures fairness, justice: report

Letting the public feel fairness and justice in every judicial case is the goal of courts across China, a work report of the Supreme People's Court (SPC) said Friday.

China's chief justice vows to safeguard Constitution's authority

​Zhou Qiang, China's chief justice, vowed to firmly safeguard the authority of the Constitution and crack down upon any constitutional violation, in a work report to the national legislature Friday.

China rectifies over 6,700 convictions from 2013-2017

​Chinese courts at various levels have overturned convictions in 6,747 criminal cases after retrials in the past five years, the Supreme People's Court said Friday.

Chinese courts to better protect property rights: Chief justice

Chinese courts will improve judicial work toward the goal that "property will be safer and rights better protected," Zhou Qiang, China's chief justice, said Friday.

Jewelry box design helps to shape country's future

Hou Zhanying is new to the National People's Congress, as it is her first time attending such a high-level political event. But when it comes to designing national presents, she is an old hand.

Cross-Straits exchanges to boost business cooperation

The latest policies of the Chinese mainland to promote economic and cultural exchanges and cooperation across the Taiwan Straits are highly necessary and should be implemented effectively, said David TC Lie, a member of China's top political advisory body.