BEIJING (The Straits Times/ANN): As early spring smog descended on Beijing on Thursday (March 4), Tiananmen Square, the political heart of the city, was under a massive security lockdown.
Some 2,100 delegates of the country's top advisory body streamed into the Great Hall of the People for the opening ceremony of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), one of the "two sessions" that make up China's annual parliamentary season.
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