Tan Dawn Wei

China sets sight on about 5 per cent growth in 2024 https://t.co/vQOJipYr4k

No more premier press conference at the end of the Two Sessions from this year on, a break from tradition set in the Li Peng era in 1988.

CPPCC spokesman Liu Jieyi just said this year's CPPCC meeting will wrap up on March 10. This year's lianghui will therefore last just a week. Looks like the days of long lianghuis are really over.

Cunchao craze - village soccer league - has seized Guizhou this weekend. Prizes for the top three teams were a cow, a pig and a goat. https://t.co/SchEGe9kSg

Not sure if Mao Ning had the easiest or hardest job of her FM spox career today, facing a room of 100 journos and 20 questions over Qin Gang; when all she had to say was: "I have no information to provide." https://t.co/5CXh8ykGHP

“Such an unplanned move at the top doesn’t come without some shock waves emanating outwards. But at the moment, it is too soon to speculate in an informed way about what it will look like.” https://t.co/CGEbdvt2hT

The NPC Standing Committee has removed a state councillor before. https://t.co/P8JA0jnz3R

𝙉𝙋𝘾 𝙊𝙗𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙚𝙧 @NPC_Observer

So folks are now asking/debating whether the NPC Standing Committee has the power to remove state councilors (who are considered state leaders 国家领导人) when the NPC isn't in session. The answer is quite clear based on the NPC Organic Law as amended in 2021. Yes, it does. https://t.co/8f1ViIKluf

Qin Gang is out, Wang Yi is back in.

Sun jackets, face-kinis and personal fans: Chinese turn creative to beat the heat https://t.co/oRGdqmVTiV

Street photography, or “jie pai”, is a burgeoning business in China’s busiest cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu, where even the most seemingly casual photo seen on social media is, in all likelihood, staged. https://t.co/KMZ3Qceuin

Good news for anyone visiting China: you can soon link your international credit card to WeChat Pay and go cashless here. https://t.co/AFdvBw1Q1d

Message from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at ongoing presser in Beijing: We're not trying to hinder economic relations with China, which should be strengthened. But it's not in our interest to provide tech to China that could be used against us. https://t.co/KtIz4jHA7H

It's arguably protocol, but the optics of Xi sitting at the head of a long table at the Great Hall, with Sec Blinken and the US delegation to his right and Chinese officials on his left gives off major power vibes. https://t.co/Dp5osdaMYb

Senior PLA officials have said they don't like that the Shangri-La Dialogue plays up US-China rivalry. "They don't want to be seen as a gladiator in the fight with the United States for the entertainment of the rest of the region," said @TangAnZhu https://t.co/tNCjnvgnOg

RT @manyapan: This is like the Haidilao version of barbers. Just randomly having the staff dance, sing, and bow for you during your haircut…

He is one of just 350 US students in China, in a sign of how US-China tensions have frayed ties https://t.co/7eDdUiZ1Px

#SLD23 Lt Gen Jing Jianfeng's strong rebuttal of Austin's speech, accusing US of deceiving and exploiting regional countries to pursue its own hegemonic interests. Also dished out warnings over Taiwan and South China Sea, which he says China has indisputable sovereignty over. https://t.co/FQsgKPmBc7