The 14th National People's Congress will open its first session on Sunday morning in Beijing and conclude on March 13 after running for eight-and-a-half-day, Wang Chao, the spokesman for the session, told a news conference on Saturday.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang started delivering a government work report on behalf of the State Council at the opening meeting of the first session of the 14th National People's Congress, held at the Great Hall of the People on Sunday morning.
China took concrete steps to improve the people's wellbeing and accelerated the development of social programs over the past five years, according to a government work report submitted Sunday to the national legislature for deliberation.
Deputies to the National People's Congress are broadly representative and is a good practice of China's whole-process democracy, said a spokesperson on Saturday.
The legislative planning work of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress has started and it is collecting legislative items from all sectors, said Wang Chao, spokesman of the first session of the 14th NPC, on Saturday.
A Chinese spokesperson said Saturday that the ongoing revision of the Legislation Law embodies whole-process people's democracy and its requirements.
China is not the largest creditor of Africa as data from the World Bank shows that nearly three fourths of Africa's external debt came from multilateral financial institutions and commercial creditors, a Chinese spokesperson said Saturday.
China stands firmly against "long-arm jurisdiction" practices, a Chinese spokesperson said Saturday.