The Third Session of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) opens at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 3, 2010. (Xinhua/Ding Lin)
BEIJING, March 4 --With global media attention having granted to two annual sessions of the National People's Congress (NPC) and the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the 3rd Session of the 11th CPPCC National Committee opens in Beijing on Wednesday, March 3rd, and the 3rd session of the 11th NPC is due Friday, two days later.
Foreign media lavish praises on a positive response China has made in coping with global financial crisis and remarkable successes it has scored in this regard, and global media are now looking forward to these two sessions to transmit the world a renewed hope and confidence.
As the world was hit by a stern financial crisis in the past 2009, China and other countries faced a serious, immense test and challenge in this crisis, said a Syrian scholar and freelance writer in an interview with a People's Daily reporter, but China, however, soon extricate itself from an economic impasse and embarked on an early recovery. This is of great significance to the realization of global economic recovery as a whole.
Top Communist Party of China (CPC) and state leaders Hu Jintao (C, Front), Wu Bangguo (2nd R, Front), Wen Jiabao (2nd L, Front), Jia Qinglin (1st R, Front), Li Changchun (1st L, Front), Xi Jinping (2nd L, Back), Li Keqiang (2nd R, Back), He Guoqiang (1st L, Back) and Zhou Yongkang (1st R, Back) walk to attend the opening meeting of the Third Session of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 3, 2010. (Xinhua/Lan Hongguang)
This not only affirms the recognition of a vital role China has been playing in the world financial crisis, he noted, but he also expresses or elaborates the reason why world media has been playing high attention to China's NPC and CPPCC sessions.
All economies worldwide endured an "economic winter" when the banking turmoil swept across the entire globe, said a senior Thai official and a member of the Tai Local Administration Committee to PD resident reporters in Thailand.
Positive response to the world financial crisis has ensured China's contrarian economic growth in a V-reversal type, so the nation became the first country on earth to attain a recovery and arrest increasing global attention. A clear, definite direction in the future development of Chinese economy would likely be formulated during the two sessions, which are expected to fill people with a renewed hope or confidence.
Pakistan's "Daily Post" chief editor said he had a personal memory of China's NPC and CPPCC sessions. When the two conferences were in session, he talked to or interviewed some Chinese taxi drivers, journalists and men or women in street; so he had the impression that they concern themselves with major topics under deliberation at the two sessions.
This not only offers a debate among NPC deputies and CPPCC National Committee members on the national development and people's livelihoods but provides a superb opportunity for ordinary people to air their views and partake in China's policy making.
Global media predict and interpret one after another China's 2010 NPC and CPPCC sessions from varied perspectives. Professor Srikanth Kongdapalli of international studies noted that China is India's close neighbor and also a reference body to India's development. Moreover, he said, economic growth in China and its development mode is of utmost concern to personages in India's economic circles.
The "World News" of Thailand on Tuesday, March 2 devoted a half-page space to China's incoming NPC and CPPCC sessions. A headline article is focused on the work report of the Chinese government to be submitted, explaining that China would accelerate the transformation of its economic growth mode, while stepping up cultural development and going in for an all-round, comprehensive implementation of the strategy of relying on science and education to build up the nation and the strategy of hinging on talents or intelligence to make the nation strong.
Thailand's "Daily News" reported in its Tuesday or March 2 Edition on the situation in China's economic and social development with particular attention given to increasing the national input in agriculture and rural areas and to raising the prices of farm produce or agricultural products.
"New York Times" reported Monday that investors will be deliberating or (combing) the annual government work report and pay close attention to see if there are any new measures after China resumes the stability of its steady economic recovery.
Meanwhile, the Associated Press noted in a report on the same day that China's annual legislative session comes at a time when its strength is growing indeed. The Chinese government is likely to further increase its input in the fields of education, pensions and medical insurance and continue to improve its social security network.
The chief of the China society (Ottawa), Canada, underscored China's endeavors to eradicate poverty. Chinese leaders visit rural farmers during the Spring Festival annually over recent years and this shows their concern for the livelihoods of villagers and rural development, he said. Irrefutable facts show that China has enlarged input in rural villages, so as to reduce rural poverty, and the eradication of rural poverty will be China's major contribution to the world.
The magic for China to rid itself out of poverty is definitely to make greater efforts to develop domestic consumption markets and enlarge domestic demand while giving more heed to the export-oriented business or industries, he said.
By People's Daily Online and contributed by Li Wenzheng, Wen Xian, Guan Kejiang and other PD overseas resident reporters.
(Source: People's Daily Online)