​Foreign reporters poised to cover China's political meetings

Media outlets from China and abroad are preparing to begin their coverage of this year's political sessions in Beijing, with more than a thousand foreign journalists accredited to attend the sessions.

Beijing's Financial Street is home to some of China's largest companies and many of its regulators. 

It's also the Chinese headquarters of one of the biggest news agencies in the world - Bloomberg. 

Bloomberg will have a team of reporters covering this year's political sessions.

The organization's Beijing Bureau Chief Ken Wills said they are hoping to generate a wide-range of stories.

"So they are coming to Beijing, we will assign reporters to go out to the delegations to get comments from them. They'll be talking about pollution, they'll talk about jobs, they'll talk about real estate prices, they'll talk about all the issues that are of key interest to them, maybe even how the US-China relations are going under the new President Trump administration," Willis said. 

Wills added economic and financial reforms are expected to dominate the news agenda. 

"To us, the key again is the economy. Whether the government can maintain and sustain growth without the fiscal, financial, monetary stimulus that has propped up the growth so far to this point," Willis said. 

He detailed that as the world's leading business news provider, any stories Bloomberg generates about the Chinese economy will be closely scrutinized by the global markets.

Meanwhile, one of Bloomberg's competitors - Reuters is also putting a team of reporters into action. 

Ryan Woo, China's Bureau Chief for Reuters, said they expect economics to be the prevailing story from this year's sessions.

"Further opening up of China's economy to outsiders, to foreigners, I feel that this is something that will progress this year. Equally important is that China recently said that it will further level the playing field for foreign companies, and again this is important because the very industries that China is trying to build up need the foreign capital and foreign expertise to help them grow," Woo said.

The Reuters chief also pointed out they expect to generate a number of stories about the Chinese government's Belt and Road initiative, suggesting the status of the program is a key indicator of how the Chinese government intends to work with its trading partners around the world.