TIRANA – “We are willing to protect people’s life and health at all costs,” has said President Xi Jinping in a deliberation on the first day of the annual session of the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s national legislature. China’s national legislature started its annual session Friday morning in Beijing, said Xinhua news agency.
Xi Jinping and other Chinese leaders attended the opening meeting of the third session of the 13th National People’s Congress, held at the Great Hall of the People. Attendees at the meeting paid a silent tribute to martyrs who died fighting COVID-19 and compatriots who lost their lives in the epidemic. After the mourning, Premier Li Keqiang delivered a government work report on behalf of the State Council to the legislature for deliberation.
In the meantime President Xi stressed improving the regular epidemic response mechanisms to prevent a resurgence of the outbreak. Commending the people as the main source of confidence for the Party, he said the masses have been the fundamental strength in the country’s epidemic response. China’s socialist democracy is the broadest, most genuine, and most effective democracy to safeguard the fundamental interests of the people, he said. Xi highlighted adhering to “people first” in coordinating epidemic control and economic and social development.
Noting that the epidemic has brought relatively huge impact to China’s economic and social development, the president said it has also led to new opportunities for development. He urged targeted efforts in mapping out major plans, reforms and policies that will serve as locomotives in the country’s high-quality development and high-efficiency governance. /argumentum.al
