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China's Two Sessions 2017

What's happening behind the scenes of China’s ‘two sessions’

South China Morning Post reporter Nectar Gan takes you behind the scenes of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing as the “two sessions” legislative gathering gets under way. 

(Photo: Simon Song)

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