How CPPCC proposals change our lives: Five-day workweek
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Do you feel exhausted after working eight hours a day, five days a week? Did you know Chinese people worked six days a week before 1994?
How did China make the transition to the five-day workweek? Here is that story.
This is the first episode of our five-episode 2020 two sessions special: Proposals to the CPPCC National Committee: Ways to advise and impact China.
Each session of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the nation's top political advisory body, has received many notable suggestions and proposals from its members. Some have made it into reality, and exerted a big influence on people's lives and the nation's development. Here are five of the most important ones in everyday life.
- Senior official who attended a banquet that led to man's death investigated
- Former senior official of Guangxi dismissed from CPC and office
- Shanghai Symphony Orchestra unveils a star-studded new season
- Hengqin Lab debuts AI-powered TCM diagnostics
- Party awards woman for evacuating 57 people before landslide struck village
- Ministry emphasizes balance between farmers' interests and rural revitalization