Behind the scenes

Delegates from all walks of life and all around the country are at the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China to share their views on a wide range of topics

Liu Peng (center), director of the General Administration of Sports, and five of his agency colleagues talk at a press conference in the Media Center in Beijing on Wednesday.

Delegate and artist Su Mei from Inner Mongolia displays on Tuesday a paper cut she made in celebration of the congress. (Xinhua photo)

Delegate and volleyball player Zhou Suhong discusses the Party congress report with Lan Xiaojuan, a delegate and vegetable farmer from Jingning She Autonomous County in Zhejiang Province on Tuesday. (China News Service)

Delegates from the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region look at an old-fashioned adding machine at an exhibition in the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution in Beijing on Friday. The machine was used by scientists to help develop China's first atomic bomb. (China News Service)

Delegate Wang Guosheng reads the Party congress report on Monday.

(China Daily October 20, 2007)