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PBSC Week in Review
Xi Jinping

 

May 5 Xi chaired a meeting of the Leading Small Group on Comprehensively Deepening Reform.

The Leading Group continues to be very productive. This meeting saw passage of at least five different “plans” or “decisions”, including on: 1) regional reforms; 2) public interest lawsuits; 3) legal aid; 4) the science and technology system; and 5) the China Association for Science and Technology.

    Xi attended the 10th general congress of the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC).

 

  May 4 Xi met with Kuomintang Chairman Eric Chu.

 

  May 1 Xi delivered a welcome address via video on the opening of the China Pavilion in Expo Milano 2015.

 

  Apr 30 Xi chaired a Politburo meeting.

Discussed economy, United Front work and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei integration.

 

    Xi chaired a Politburo study session on urban-rural integration.

 

  Apr 29 Xi met with Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal.

 

  Apr 28 Xi spoke at a ceremony to celebrate model workers and International Labor Day.

Full text of the speech is here (in Chinese).

 

    Xi held talks with Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.

Two pledged to pledged to lift the bilateral relationship to an all-round partnership.

Xi said that “China and Africa have always been a community of common destiny”.

 

    Xi spoke with President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev by telephone.

 

  Apr 27 Xi met with U Shwe Mann, chairman of Myanmar’s ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP).

 

    Xi congratulated Omar al-Bashir on his reelection as President of Sudan.

 

Li Keqiang

 

May 5 Attended meeting of Leading Small Group on Comprehensively Deepening Reform.

 

    Attended the 10th general congress of the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC).
  May 4 Li met with Helen Clark, deputy secretary-general of the United Nations and head of the UN Development Program (UNDP).

 

    Li met with Syed Hamid bin Syed Jaafar Albar, chairman of Malaysia’s Land Public Transport Commission.

 

    Li sent a letter to a maker student group at Tsinghua University in honor of China Youth Day.

“The most important part of public entrepreneurship and innovation is to encourage people’s creativity, especially young people whose willingness and determination leads to a prosperous and vigorous society and country,” Li said in the letter.

 

  Apr 29 Li held talks with Prime Minister of Algeria Abdelmalek Sellal.

 

    Li met with Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.

 

    Li sent instructions to a work conference on deepening reform of the medical care system.

 

  Apr 28 Li chaired an executive meeting of the State Council.

 

    Li chaired a ceremony to commemorate model workers and celebrate International Labor Day.

 

  Apr 27 Li met with Professor Emeritus at Hong Kong University Rao Zongyi.

 

Zhang Dejiang   Zhang met with Japanese representatives from the Japan-China Friendship Parliamentarians’ Union.

“China expects Japan to talk and act in a responsible way and properly settle sensitive issues,” Zhang said.

 

  Apr 28 Attended a ceremony to commemorate model workers and celebrate International Labor Day.

 

  Apr 25-27 Zhang went to Chongqing to inspect implementation of the Vocational Education Law.

 

Yu Zhengsheng May 5 Yu met with Malaysian Senate President Abu Zahar.

 

  May 3 Yu attended and spoke at the 10th Cross-Strait Economic, Trade and Culture Forum.

Full text of his speech (in Chinese).

 

  Apr 29 Yu met with Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.

 

    Yu addressed a ceremony to celebrate 45 years of relations between China and Equatorial Guinea.

 

  Apr 28 Attended a ceremony to commemorate model workers and celebrate International Labor Day.

 

    Yu met with Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal.

 

Liu Yunshan May 5 Attended meeting of Leading Small Group on Comprehensively Deepening Reform.

 

    Attended the 10th general congress of the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC).

 

  Apr 29 Liu attended the graduation ceremony for participants in the Central Party School’s spring term advanced studies class.

 

  Apr 28 Attended a ceremony to commemorate model workers and celebrate International Labor Day.

 

  Apr 27 Liu met with U Shwe Mann, chairman of Myanmar’s ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP).

 

Wang Qishan

 

Apr 28 Attended a ceremony to commemorate model workers and celebrate International Labor Day.

 

Zhang Gaoli May 5 Attended meeting of Leading Small Group on Comprehensively Deepening Reform.

 

  Apr 30 Zhang spoke with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich by telephone.

 

  Apr 28 Attended a ceremony to commemorate model workers and celebrate International Labor Day.

 


 

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