媒体关注中国两会
China's two sessions are closely watched for the direction the country's politics and economy would take. This year, over three-thousand reporters have their eyes trained on the event, waiting for the opening.
Eyes are on China.
Deepening reform, economic development and anti-corruption continue to be media highlights of the opening of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the country's top political advisory body.
The state media, China Central Television, has launched full-gear coverage, carried out by eleven channels, with nearly one hundred programmes and new media platforms.
CCTV's English and other foreign language channels are taking a grounded perspective.
"How much can these proposals influence the welfare of the public is what we should be focusing on this year," said Han Bin, CCTV News reporter.
Mainstream media like Xinhua News Agency and China Radio International all promote their special coverage, taking the form of traditional and new media platforms.
"We've designed new types of news coverage and planning through the use of Weibo and WeChat," said Sheng Hui, from Politics Channel of People's Daily Website.
Over three-thousand reporters have congregated in Beijing, among them, 1,000 from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, and overseas.
"We're interested in economic guidelines for the year, by March Premier Li Keqiang will deliver a speech at the Great Hall of the People, he'll deliver the GDP gross figure, CPI, employment, also investment goals, so businesses and industries is going to be very interesting, because China is a major economic player, everybody is looking for doing business here in China, so these people are very interesting to know about it," said Vega, Spanish reporter of The Business Group Spain.
Over the years, the sessions have helped navigate the development of China, which not only matters to the country, but also catches the attention of the world.
Many are waiting for the key messages from this year's meeting, to find out what will be the world's second largest economy's next move.