Following are the highlights of a government work report distributed to media ahead the annual session of the National People's Congress (NPC) Tuesday morning.
China plans to raise its defense budget by 10.7 percent to 720.2 billion yuan ($114.3 billion) in 2013.
The annual session of China's top legislature, or the National People's Congress, is scheduled to open at 9 am Tuesday in Beijing.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on Monday urged boosting innovation-powered development in order to make China an economic heavyweight.
Xi Jinping (R front), general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission, visits members of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) from China Association for Science and Technology as well as science and technology circles and joins their panel discussion in Beijing, capital of China, March 4, 2013.
The term: "China Dream" reminds me of the "American Dream", and the famous "I Have a Dream", speech delivered by Martin Luther King. But the China Dream has a specific meaning, compared with the other two.
China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) and local courts at various levels handled more than 50,000 cases and 56 million cases over the last five years, respectively, up 174 percent and 29.3 percent compared to the previous five-year period, the SPC said Monday.
China should make continuous efforts to enable disabled students to have equal access to education, a senior national political adviser said.
More students from the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region should be sponsored to be educated in more-developed provinces and regions to enjoy top teaching facilities and methods, a deputy to the National People's Congress suggested.
To smoke or not to smoke? That remains a question at the annual sessions of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a forum of China's elites.
Japan has sabotaged its consensus with China and invalidated the basis for China's restraint, the spokeswoman for the National People's Congress said on Monday.
Chinese cultural tourism, particularly to less accessible places, is as fascinating as any we have encountered.
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