Full coverage: 2017 NPC & CPPCC Sessions

Full coverage: China’s Leaders

BEIJING, March 12 (Xinhua) -- Senior Chinese leaders on Sunday joined national lawmakers from the provinces of Henan and Jiangxi in discussing socialist core values, industrial upgrading and ecological civilization.

Liu Yunshan, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, joins a panel discussion with deputies to the 12th National People's Congress (NPC) from Henan Province at the annual session of the NPC in Beijing, capital of China, March 12, 2017. (Xinhua/Rao Aimin)

Liu Yunshan, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, attended a panel discussion with lawmakers from Henan at the ongoing annual session of the National People's Congress (NPC).

Liu called for consistently promoting the development of socialist core values, saying that the draft general provisions of the civil law deliberated on at the ongoing session embodies the requirements of socialist core values.

Efforts should be made to resolve prominent moral problems by legal means, Liu said.

Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli joins a panel discussion with deputies to the 12th National People's Congress (NPC) from Jiangxi Province at the annual session of the NPC in Beijing, capital of China, March 12, 2017. (Xinhua/Xie Huanchi)

Joining NPC deputies from Jiangxi, Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli called for efforts to deepen the supply-side structural reform, speed up industrial upgrading and develop advanced manufacturing sector.

Zhang, who is also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, urged Jiangxi to advance agricultural modernization and build a good national ecological experimental zone.