Chinese leaders join lawmakers in panel discussions (3/5)

Yu Zhengsheng (C), chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, joins a panel discussion of deputies to the 12th National People's Congress (NPC) from central China's Hubei Province, in Beijing, capital of China, March 5, 2014. (Xinhua/Ju Peng)

Top political advisor Yu Zhengsheng attended the panel discussion with lawmakers from the central province of Hubei.

Yu urged NPC deputies to comprehensively deepen reform while also considering the situations in different areas.

Yu, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, said that unreasonable industry monopolies should be broken up in a bid to let the market play a decisive role in allocating resources.

He also urged environmentally friendly economic development.

"We should enhance mechanism building to better protect the environment," he said.