Mr Gong says officials have made it clear in recent weeks that they want the law passed at this year's NPC session.

巩献田说，主事官员在这几周明说了，他们希望该法在今年的全国人代会上通过。

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The budget presented to the NPC calls for a nearly 18% increase in military spending this year to 347 billion yuan.

提交给全国人代会的预算案要求军事支出增加约18%，今年达到347亿元。

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Now the session of the NPC is over, yet the road ahead could be rather bumpy.

大会顺利结束了，但是我们面前的路是不平坦的，要保持头脑的冷静，形势稍好，尤需兢慎。

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Besides the aim to liberalize the power sector, Manila is also under financial pressure to dispose of the NPC - and reduce the burden of covering its deficit.

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One Weibo post asking for users' own suggestions for what should be done at the "two sessions" - the NPC and the simultaneous meeting of China's top consultative body - received more than seven million responses.

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Meralco says it is not interested in the NPC's 230-kilovolt main transmission line, but just in the 115-kv subsidiary link to the southern Luzon provinces of Cavite and Laguna, where the country's major industries - Meralco's customers - are situated.

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