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5 March 2013 Last updated at 02:34 ET By John Sudworth BBC News, Shangpu village, Guangdong, China Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Villagers in Shangpu are venting their anger over a land deal Continue reading the main story China sets 7.5% growth target Wen speech begins annual session Watch How serious is Xi on corruption? Will Xi Jinping be different? Nearly 2,000km (1,200 miles) away from the communist leadership gathering in Beijing, a small village on China's southern coast serves as a potent reminder of the challenges facing the senior party ranks. As you approach Shangpu in Guangdong province, its relevance to the shifting sands of Chinese politics is not immediately apparent. In the surrounding fields, barefoot farmers ankle-deep in water still work the rice paddies, as if oblivious to the dizzying economic and social change shaking other parts of this country. But a few days ago a har...

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao delivers the government work report to the annual session of the National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing March 5, 2013. [Photo/Xinhua] BEIJING – At 9 am, the 70-year-old premier of China Wen Jiabao began delivering his last government work report to the top legislature that opened its annual session on Tuesday. It took him nearly 100 minutes. Wen has served the Constitution-limit two terms and will leave office when the legislature's annual session decides his successor later this month. After his decade-long premiership, Wen announced in his last government work report that "we now envision an ever-brighter future for our great country." On March 18, 2003, Wen became the sixth premier of the People's Republic of China. He vowed in his debut press conference that day to "devote his life to the task until death and live up to expectations." He assumed the premiership again in 2008....

JingAn Temple callumgv has added a photo to the pool: city center Shanghai at night Central Axis of the Imperial City thru TS T-YOUNGR@PHY has added a photo to the pool: This picture was taken quite during last summer, I was standing high above inside a building in Beijing back then. As you can see clearly, there two obvious traditional Chinese architectures to the right of this photo, they are the Bell Tower and the Drum Tower, which I try to emphasize in this shot. What you might not see is some thing far ahead behind the little hill in this picture, which locates the Forbidden City that used to serve as the imperial palace for China's last two dynasties, Ming Dynasty & Qing Dynast, over 600 years. The little hill is where the Jingshan Park is, which used to be an imperial park for the imperial families in the past just like the Beihai Park located right across it to the other direction. Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Jingshan Park, Drum Tower, and ...

BEIJING — The preparatory meeting of the first session of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) approved the presidium of the session Saturday. Yu Zhengsheng presided over the presidium meetings. A 323-member presidium for the annual session was approved at the preparatory meeting, and Du Qinglin was approved as secretary general of the CPPCC congress, the congress spokesman Lyu Xinhua told reporters at a press conference. The presidium held its first meeting Saturday and 10 executive chairpersons, including Yu Zhengsheng, Du Qinglin, Ling Jihua, Han Qide, Pagbalha Geleg Namgyai, Tung Chee-hwa, Wan Gang, Lin Wenyi, Luo Fuhe and Ho Hau Wah, were approved for the presidium, Lyu said. The preparatory meeting for the first session of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference is held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 2, 2013. Jia Qinglin (left), chairman of...

At 9 am, the 70-year-old premier of China Wen Jiabao began delivering his last government work report to the top legislature that opened its annual session on Tuesday. It took him nearly 100 minutes. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao delivers the government work report to the annual session of the National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing March 5, 2013. [Photo/Xinhua]  Wen has served the Constitution-limit two terms and will leave office when the legislature's annual session decides his successor later this month. After his decade-long premiership, Wen announced in his last government work report that "we now envision an ever-brighter future for our great country." On March 18, 2003, Wen became the sixth premier of the People's Republic of China. He vowed in his debut press conference that day to "devote his life to the task until death and live up to expectations." He assumed the premiership again in 2008. ...

BEIJING – Communist Party of China (CPC) leader Xi Jinping on Friday called on Party members to enhance their ability to handle new problems and challenges through study and practice. How to get a proper understanding of and appropriately handle new situations and problems arising in the country's development are important subjects faced by the entire Party, said Xi, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission, addresses a gathering held to mark the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee in Beijing, capital of China, March 1, 2013. [Photo/Xinhua] The only way to achieve the goal is to enhance our capabilities through study, he said during a gathering held to mark the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee. He called on Party members to not only p...

China's indigenous carrier rocket Long March-7 will hopefully make its first launch in 2014, a senior official of the rocket's designing institute said on Friday. Liang Xiaohong, Party chief of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, made the remarks during an exclusive interview with Xinhua. Researchers of the rocket have made key technological breakthroughs, including in the design and production of a staged combustion cycle liquid oxygen and kerosene engine, which can produce a thrust of 180 kilonewtons, he said. For the carrier rocket Long March-5, which will hopefully make its debut launch within three years, researchers have grasped key technologies for production and testing of most of the rocket structure's parts, including its 5.2-meter-diameter cowl and five-meter-diameter compartment. They are striving for breakthroughs in technologies associated with the five-meter-diameter cryogenic propellant tank that stores liquid hydrogen fue...