About three thousand delegates from around China are in Beijing for this year's meeting of the National People's Congress.
VOA: special.2011.03.05
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of theNational People's Congress the top annual meetings of China's legislature the developers said that the market continues to face pressure from declining sales and tightened credit.
Even the conservative Mr Li to whom it fell to declare martial law in 1989 and who is now the head of theNational People's Congress is calling for the media to play a greater role in criticising government shortcomings.
In response to popular calls for direct elections in 2007 for the Chief Executive and 2008 for all of the Legislative Council, as allowed under the Basic Law, the PRC's National People's Congress Standing Committee has made some telling and worrisome moves in recent weeks.