China's top legislature to hold its annual session next month after postponing the meeting for the first time in decades due to coronavirus outbreak
Military band members rehearse before the closing session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China March 15, 2019.
The Communist Party leadership announced in February that it would put off the annual National People's Congress for the first time since the Cultural Revolution as the country battled the coronavirus outbreak, which has since become a global pandemic. Top Communist Party leaders including President Xi Jinping attend each year's gathering with delegates from across the country, to rubber-stamps bills, budgets and personnel moves already decided by the party.
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