FOCUS | SCIO holds press conference on developing socialist democracy during 14th Five-Year Plan period

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18 Aug 2025, 13:15 GMT+10

(250818) -- BEIJING, Aug. 18, 2025 (Xinhua) -- A journalist asks a question at a press conference held by the State Council Information Office (SCIO) on developing socialist democracy during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025) in Beijing, capital of China, Aug. 18, 2025.

Ma Lihuai, deputy director of the United Front Work Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Song Rui, deputy secretary-general of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) and director-general of the Research Office of the General Office of the Standing Committee of the NPC, Hu Henglu, deputy secretary-general of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and Duan Yijun, deputy head of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission, attended the press conference in Beijing on Monday. (Xinhua/Chen Yehua)

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