Gu posed the question to Liu Yongfu, director of the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, as lawmakers deliberated a report on China's rural poverty alleviation work.
Lawmakers Thursday urged not to adjust environmental targets though the progress toward four of them is considered slow.According to the report, urbanization reached 52.27 percent in 2012 while the target is 51.5 percent by 2015.
China's economic growth is likely to stand at 7.6 percent this year, slightly down from 7.7 percent in 2012, said a State Council report on Wednesday.GDP growth was 9.3 percent in 2011, 7.7 percent in 2012 and 7.6 percent in the first half of this year, according to the report.
Progress has lagged for four binding environmental targets set in the country's 12th five-year development plan (2011-2015), a government report warned on Wednesday.
China Wednesday promised to adopt "the strictest" environment and energy policies as it has lagged behind in terms of four binding environmental targets set for 2015.
The number of rural poor in China dropped by nearly 67 million from 2010 to 2012, according to a State Council's report on Wednesday.
Senior legislator Chen Zhu on Monday urged education authorities to improve teachers' income to ensure sound development of the teaching sector.
The country's top legislators are going to examine how the Compulsory Education Law is being carried out nationwide, following a Monday meeting of a group of members of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) responsible for the issue.