China has strengthened its supervision over food safety in the past five years through legislation and inspection on compliance of relevant laws, said Wu Bangguo, the country's top legislator, here Friday.
Top legislator Friday vowed to help enhance the "rule of law" in national governance and social management, and keep the power in check through harsher supervision.
Top legislator Wu Bangguo on Friday delivered a report on the work of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People's Congress (NPC) to the first session of the 12th NPC.
China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) on Tuesday submitted a report on the implementation of the country's 2012 national economic and social development plan and on the 2013 draft development plan to the National People's Congress (NPC) for national lawmakers to deliberate.
-- The government spending on education totaled 7.79 trillion yuan over the past five years and increased annually by 21.58 percent to reach 4 percent of GDP in 2012.
The appropriation for agriculture, forestry, and water conservancy in the central budget is 619.588 billion yuan, up 12.8 percent from last year's budgeted figure and up 3.3 percent from last year's actual figure.
Lawmakers will scrutinize the budget for the social security fund for the first time at the upcoming annual session of the national legislature.The first session of the 12th NPC will open Tuesday in Beijing.
Ahead of the Chinese national legislature's annual session kicking off on Tuesday, national lawmakers have backed reform of controversial labor camps in which people can be sentenced to up to four years' "re-education" by police without trial.