China's national legislature adopts government work report

The fifth session of the 12th National People's Congress (NPC), China's national legislature, began its closing meeting Wednesday morning.[Photo: cri.cn]

The National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, on Wednesday adopted the government work report at the closing meeting of its annual session.

Among 2,838 NPC deputies present at the closing meeting, 2,812 voted for the report.

A total of 2,721 deputies also voted for the report on the implementation of the 2016 plan for national economic and social development and the 2017 plan for national economic and social   development.

The report on the implementation of central and local budgets for 2016 and on central and local budgets for 2017 was also approved, with 2,555 votes in favor.