(ECNS) - The National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, and the Chinese Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China's top political advisory body, have received tens of thousands of suggestions ahead of the annual sessions, the Beijing Times reported on Wednesday. [Special coverage]
Nearly 41,000 messages have been received through online services, and 914 suggestions have been forwarded to government departments, according to the report.
Suggestions have been classified into 18 categories: streamline administration and decentralization, macroeconomic regulation and control, structural adjustment, taxation and financing, new-type urbanization, agriculture-related problems, career-orientation, income distribution, educational equality, technical innovation, medical reform, social security, housing security, environmental protection, anti-corruption issues, law-based administration, energy conservation and emission reduction.
Chinese Internet users are also concerned with traffic, food safety, and child trafficking.
Netizens can still express their opinions online during the two sessions, a person in charge of the service told the newspaper.
"This is the first time the central government has actively sought advice from the public during the drafting process of the two sessions," said one official.
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