Dates set for 2024 'Two Sessions'
Next year's National People's Congress (NPC) meeting will open in Beijing on March 5. That's according to a decision adopted by the NPC Standing Committee at the end of its week-long meeting on Friday. The second annual session of the 14th NPC will scrutinise the government work report, the implementation of the 2023 national economic and social development plan and the central and local budgets for 2024, among other blueprints. Beijing also announced that the annual meeting of the top advisory body, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, will open on March 4, one day before the start of the NPC meeting. (Additional reporting by Xinhua)