North China's Hebei Province will plant more than 10 million mu (about 682,000 hectares) of trees in counties neighboring Beijing in the coming 10 years in an effort to fend off sand and conserve water resources for the drought-prone capital.
A draft of China's 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) was submitted Saturday morning to the National People's Congress (NPC), the country's top legislature, for reviewing.
As China faces an aging society, a delegate of Guangzhou People's Congress suggests the government should establish a specialized agency to improve social services for the elderly who live alone.
Members of the nation's top political advisory body should play a bigger role in soliciting public opinion, especially through the Internet, CPPCC National Committee chairman Jia Qinglin said on Thursday.
The problems faced by homeless children and defects in the current system that is supposed to protect the vulnerable group were discussed on Wednesday at the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
A political advisor on Wednesday called for the designation of a municipality in southwest China as a forefront to strengthen exchanges between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan.
