At 9:00am on March 14th, 2011 (Monday), the Closing Session of the 4th Session of the 11th NPC will be convened at the Great Hall of the People. During the session, the deputies will vote on the draft resolution on the Report on the Work of the Government, on the draft resolution on the Twelfth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development, on the draft resolution on the Implementation of Plan for National Economic and Social Development for 2010 and Plan for National Economic and Social Development for 2011, on the draft resolution on the Implementation of the central and local budget for 2010 and the central and local budget for 2011, on the draft resolution on the Report of the Work of the NPC Standing Committee, on the draft resolution on the Report of the Work of the Supreme People’s Court, on the draft resolution on the Report of the Work of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, on the Draft Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on the confirmation of accepting the request of Ni Yuefeng’s resignation from the Standing Committee of the National People’s congress.
Journalists may enter the Great Hall of the People by passing the security check at the first door of the south passage of its East Gate with NPC press cards 80 minutes in advance. Those who hold G2 Press Cards should be seated in Area No. 3, 5 and 7 in the front of the Second floor, while those who hold G3 Press Cards, be seated on the Third floor. Please conclude your reporting activities 5 minutes prior to the session. Please keep quiet when the session begins.
The staff of the Press Center will start to hand out the Chinese and English version of the report on the work of the NPC Standing Committee 60 minutes before the session begins. For domestic journalists and journalists from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, the hand-out location is the Press room, north of the First Floor. For foreign journalists, the hand-out location is the southern area of the Second Floor.
Before and after the session, journalists may conduct interviews in the area below the steps out of the East Entrance, or the area outside of the Grand Auditorium of the Great Hall of the People. Journalists may also conduct interviews with the Ministers sitting in on the session in the designated area east of the North Hall of the Great Hall of the People. All interviews should be concluded 15 minutes before the session begins. Please do not conduct interviews on the street west of the Tiananmen Square that might lead to congestion.
For the journalists driving over to cover the session, please drive through the East Entrance of the Tiananmen Square and park your vehicles in the designated parking area.
Press Center
4th Session of the 11th NPC
March 12th, 2011
