The Beijing News also welcomes calls by CPPCC and NPC deputies to quit smoking and remove ashtrays from meeting halls or at least smoke outside.

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Beijing Times says the annual "two sessions" of the NPC and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), a national advisory body, next week will cut back on conference expenses and require senior delegates to take coaches rather than private cars.

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Apple Daily, one of Hong Kong's top-selling tabloids and an outspoken critic of the Communist Party, says the new leadership's vow not to copy Western political models shows the NPC is still a Soviet-style "rubber stamp" and the CPPCC is an ornamental but essentially useless "flower pot".

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