Top Chinese political advisor Jia Qinglin delivered a report on the work of the country's top political advisory body at the opening meeting of its annual full session which started here in the Great Hall of the People Wednesday afternoon.

More than 800 foreign journalists and around 500 from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan are to cover this year's two political sessions in China, the press center of the sessions said Wednesday.

Schools in northwest China's vast inland region, home to the country's densest population of Uygur ethnic group, are in dire need of bilingual teachers, fluent in both Mandarin (putonghua) and the Turkic dialect, a political advisor told Xinhua on Wednesday.

More than 2,000 members of China's top political advisory body CPPCC will discuss major issues concerning the nation's development during the annual meeting scheduled to conclude on March 13. Highlights of Jia Qinglin's work report Thousands of journalists cover sessions Full coverage

China, known for its sparing consumers, should relieve its tough income tax levies, said Xu Shanda, former chief of the State Administration of Taxation and a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Nanfang Daily reported Wednesday.

Husbands should pay their wives a salary each month for doing housework, said Zhang Xiaomei, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, cited by the Huaxi Metropolis Daily on Monday.

China is to put an unmanned space module, Tiangong-1, into space in 2011, a space expert said here Wednesday.

The fight against corruption and the improvement of people's livelihoods are the most pressing issues for the upcoming annual sessions of the top legislature and political advisory body, according to an online survey conducted by China Daily.

The third plenary session of the 11th National People's Congress (NPC), the country's highest legislative body, will open on Friday at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

There were broad signals Tuesday that China and the United States would like to get their relationship back on an even keel even as Beijing made it clear that its interests cannot be compromised.