The 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, China's top political advisory body, held a news conference via video link on Thursday, one day ahead of the opening of its fifth annual session. Here are some key takeaways from the conference.

About the session

- CPPCC National Committee to hold annual session from March 4-10

On economy

- China's sound economic fundamentals unchanged

- CPPCC National Committee to promote technology, boost homegrown capacity

On trade

- China's foreign trade is expected to keep running in a reasonable range in 2022

On COVID-19

- China's 'dynamic zero COVID-19 policy' fits its conditions, follows science

- China's 'dynamic zero COVID-19 policy' has helped stabilize global supply chains

- China has provided over 2.1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines for more than 120 countries and international organizations

On political consultation

- CPPCC National Committee taking creative steps to improve quality of proposals

- CPPCC National Committee uses online consultations to improve its quality of work during pandemic

- CPPCC National Committee has worked over the years to support small, medium-sized enterprises

On aging

- CPPCC National Committee taking measures to boost living condition of senior population

On democracy

- Democracy not privilege of certain countries; democratic systems should fit people

- US using democracy to serve its own interests

- China democratic system has helped improve people's lives, development

- China's National Congress widely representative of all ethnic, social groups

On Hong Kong

- Hong Kong's new electoral system guarantees people's democratic rights

- Hong Kong will win its battle against its worst-ever wave of COVID-19 with the central government's strong leadership, support from the whole nation and concerted efforts of the Hong Kong community

On technology

- China making progress in technological development

- CPPCC National Committee has organized members to find solutions for bottleneck issues in core technologies

- Technological innovation important issue, major focus of CPPCC deliberations

On employment

- Employment issue of concern to many in China; CPPCC working to prioritize stable employment

- College graduates, migrant workers need special assistance to find jobs

On opening-up

- China will continue to expand its high-level opening-up with concrete steps to jointly build an open world economy

- New progress has been achieved in opening China to the outside world

- Practices of a few countries to form cliques and blocs and divide the world by ideology go against the trend of the world and will not win people's support

On Beijing 2022

- Beijing Winter Games promoted solidarity, exchange between civilizations