China expert Barry Naughton quoted by Reuters
China parliament examines growth, living standards
03/05/2010
Chris Buckley,
Reuters
BEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese leadership's efforts to engineer a trouble-free succession and push both economic growth and improved living standards in coming years move to the national parliament from Friday.
The annual full session of the National People's Congress (NPC) will open with a report by Premier Wen Jiabao, who with President Hu Jintao is entering the last stretch of a second five-year term steering the world's third-biggest economy. They are due to make way to a new generation of leaders from 2012.
Wen's speech in the Great Hall of the People will be as cautious as the Communist Party-controlled parliament, whose 3,000-odd delegates - officials, executives and workers and farmers -- are chosen and trained to keep their criticisms muted.
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Naughton is an authority on the Chinese economy with an emphasis on issues relating to industry, trade, finance, and China's transition to a market economy.
