Cutting red tape and pushing government reform is not like trimming nails, but like piercing knife onto one’s wrist. We have to endure because it will disentangle the market from the government.
Li Keqiang
(李克强)
Chinese Premier
There are problems within the election process of the deputies of the National People’s Congress. Some company owners posing as farmers or workers were elected, but those who come from the grassroots were not.
Wang Ercheng
(王尔乘)
NPC deputy
Corruption wreaked havoc to arts as art works are used as bribes. We shall move authority out of arts.
Feng Jicai
(冯骥才)
standing committee member of CPPCC
28 officials at the provincial, ministerial level and higher were placed under investigation for corruption in 2014, including Zhou Yongkang and Xu Caihou.
Cao Jianming
(曹建明)
procurator general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate
Teachers working in the countryside should be paid 20 to 30 percent more than those working in the urban areas. Raising the pay could help teachers stay in the countryside and improve education.
Yu Minhong
(俞敏洪)
member of CPPCC
There are people from Xinjiang crossing the border and joining the Islamic State group. We found recently that some group members returned to Xinjiang for terror attacks.
Zhang Chunxian
(张春贤)
Party chief of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Antibiotics abuse is common in China’s stock farming and aquaculture, which resulted in water pollution. I don’t eat overweight fish. It’s time to tackle the problem.
Zhong Nanshan
(钟南山)
member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and NPC deputy
As an NPC deputy, we come to Beijing not for sightseeing but for taking the responsibility. No one shall ask for leave during panel discussions.
Zhao Yong
(赵勇)
Vice-secretary of the CPC Hebei Provincial Committee
The average annual concentration of PM2.5 in Beijing will be reduced to 60 microgram per cubic meter in 2017 and the capital’s total population will be under 23 million in 2020.
Li Shixiang
(李世祥)
vice-mayor of Beijing and NPC deputy
It’s nonsense to say that the central government spent 300 billion yuan on public vehicles, official receptions and overseas trips in 2014. The expenditure of the public funds was 7.1 billion yuan last year.
Lou Jiwei
(楼继伟)
minister of finance
Beijing needs to limit the influx of migrant population because native Beijingers are getting lazier living solely on renting out their apartments.
Yue Fuhong
(岳福洪)
CPPCC member
There is no evidence in the world saying that GM food is harmful to human body. The approved GM food on the Chinese market is safe. I myself eat GM food.
Niu Dun
(牛盾)
vice-minister of agriculture and CPPCC member
More children living in the countryside now go to kindergartens. But the rural pre-school facilities are underdeveloped. My proposal is to call for free pre-school education.
Mo Yan
(莫言)
CPPCC member and Nobel laureate for literature
The new environmental protection law is a comprehensive law. It's believed to be the most rigorous law in history that shows zero tolerance towards pollution.
Fu Ying
(傅莹)
Spokesperson for the third session of the 12th National People’s Congress (NPC)
We will have blue sky and white cloud in Beijing before 2030 if we push the capital's Clean Air Action Plan.
Lv Xinhua
(吕新华)
spokesman for the third session of the 12th National Committee of CPPCC
China's anti-corruption effort has no limit or ceiling and no one has impunity.
Lv Xinhua
(吕新华)
spokesman for the third session of the 12th National Committee of CPPCC