Leadership meetings to focus on reviving economy

BEIJING: After over two months of delay thanks to the coronavirus outbreak, China’s biggest political event kicked off with salvaging the country’s bruised economy top on the minds of its leadership.Discussions on how to save and create jobs and boost investments will dominate the week, even as 5,000 delegates from around the country practise safe distancing at the annual parliamentary meetings, which have been shortened from the usual 10 days to a week.

Some 2,000 representatives from various political parties and sectors of society were set to attend the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference starting yesterday, where proposals – a significant number of them coronavirus-related – by these political advisers would be discussed.