CHINA: Overseas Media Keeps Focus on Parliamentary Sessions

Since the 2010 annual plenary sessions of China's National People's Congress began first week of March, overseas media has been covering a string of hot topics concerning politics, economy and democracy, reflecting China's ever enlarging global influence.

Russia's RIA Novosti news agency said it's quite a surprise that the world's major media have kept their eyes on China's ongoing parliamentary sessions.

With the global economy facing a 2.2 percent contraction in 2009, China's GDP increased by 8.7 percent, a rather unique performance, it said.

It also pointed out China's rich-poor gap has been widening during its 30 years of rapid economic growth. The situation could be very dangerous to every economy that is facing it, especially such a populous country as China.

That's why Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said his government would be committed to delivering a rational income distribution, it added.

South Korea's Hankyoreh said in an article that a hot debate over changing China's economic development mode and reforming income distribution mechanism has been observed.

After experiencing some 30 years of economic uprising, China has to adapt itself to the tremendous differences occurring in markets and technology by changing its economic growth pattern and optimizing the structure, it said.

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