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As it happened: China’s ‘two sessions’ 2024 – Beijing defends realistic GDP goal, vows to crack down on financial market irregularities

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As it happened: China’s ‘two sessions’ 2024 – Beijing defends realistic GDP goal, vows to crack down on financial market irregularities

This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing in our spring flash sale. China’s finance and commerce ministers, as well as the heads of the People’s Bank of China, National Development and Reform Commission and China Securities Regulatory Commission, met the press … Read more

China Premier Li Will Not Hold Press Conference at NPC, Breaking From Tradition

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China Premier Li Will Not Hold Press Conference at NPC, Breaking From Tradition

China’s Li Qiang will become the first premier in three decades to not hold a press briefing at the annual parliamentary meetings, removing a rare platform for investors to learn more about the nation’s policy direction as President Xi Jinping consolidates control over the world’s second-largest economy. The country’s No. 2 official won’t take questions … Read more

Magpies taking flight for historic NPC final across-country

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Magpies taking flight for historic NPC final across-country

Jay Campbell said Air Chathams flight option had been “simply amazing.” Photo / NZME It’s the longest east-west trip in New Zealand to a place where the Hawke’s Bay Magpies have never won a National Provincial Championship rugby game. But it is the dream of half a century, so when the opportunity came up the … Read more