The number of foreign reporters attending the annual session in 2013 grew by 20 percent since last year to nearly 1,000, which is a record high for the event.

The 12th National People's Congress (NPC), China's parliamentary body, opened its first annual session Tuesday morning at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Nearly 3,000 NPC deputies from across the country attended the opening meeting along with top Party and State leaders.

NPC Spokesperson Fu Ying did not release China's defense budget for 2013 at a press conference on the eve of the 12th National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing.

Reporters at the two sessions

The National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the country's top political advisory body, convened for its annual session in Beijing Sunday.

Lyu Xinhua, spokesman for the First Session of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), answered questions from the press on March 2 in Beijing.

While China’s "two sessions" are considered the country's most important annual political events, what exactly can they do for China? In this episode, we will first take to the streets to collect some ordinary people’s ideas. Followed by an animation answering people’s most frequent questions and confusion, we will meet two guests.

From March 3 to 14, thousands of National People's Congress deputies and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference members from all over the country gathered in Beijing. We interviewed dozens of them and invite you to watch eight interview segments we think best represent the topics discussed during the two sessions.

Zhou Wenzhong, a Standing Committee member of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), sat down with a China Daily reporter on March 6 to discuss China's two major political sessions.

A press conference holds in the Great Hall of the People, ahead of the session's openin Beijing on March 4, Li Zhaoxing, spokesman for the Fifth Plenary Session of the 11th National People's Congress (NPC) holds the confrence.