National People`s Congress News
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The protests started two days after a resolution to "prevent, frustrate and punish" threats to national security in Hong Kong was presented to China`s legislature, the National People`s Congress (NPC).
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China`s Communist-controlled legislature approved an economic roadmap for the next five years and a charity law among a series of measures Wednesday at the close of its annual meeting.
Chinese legislator Zhang Dejiang on Wednesday appreciated "full and effective enforcement" of the country`s Constitution in 2015.
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China is aiming for average economic growth at or above 6.5 percent for the next five years, the government said on Saturday, as the world`s no. 2 economy seeks to balance deep structural reforms, gyrating financial markets and softening global trade.
A draft five-year plan projected that China's population would grow to "around 1.42 billion" by 2020.
China will raise its defence budget by seven to eight percent in 2016, compared with last year`s 10.1 percent, an official said on Friday.
Chinese lawmakers consider amending the family planning law to allow couples to have two children.
The brother-in-law of a former top Chinese presidential aide has been sacked as deputy mayor of a northern city, Chinese media has reported, in what could be a widening corruption investigation into the former aide`s family.
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President Barack Obama on Monday sharply criticized China`s plans for new rules on U.S. tech companies, urging Beijing to change the policy if it wants to do business with the United States and saying he had raised it with President Xi Jinping.
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