China's President Xi fears impact on visits to Japan Postponement of NPC due to spread of infection 4:25 on February 25
One of the most important political dates in China, the National People's Congress, has been postponed on the 5th of next month in order to ensure that measures against the new coronavirus are thoroughly implemented. A new schedule has the decide again, but in which an extremely unusual situation, and there is concern also affects the visit to Japan as a state guest of Xi Jinping Jintao.
NPC is one of the most important political dates once a year, with nearly 3,000 delegates from all over the country attending and deciding the basic policy for the next year. Was.
At its meeting held yesterday, the Managing Committee of the NPC officially decided to postpone the need for thorough countermeasures against the new coronavirus. The new schedule after the postponement will be decided again. It has been customary for NPCs to begin on March 5 every year since 1998, and the postponement is extremely unusual.
習近 also a flat leadership is important conference which opened 23 days, "still, severely's complicated" about the situation of infection as, does not indicate the prospect of termination. For this reason, there is concern that President Xi's visit to Japan, which is being adjusted around early April, will be affected.
Meanwhile, the Standing Committee on 24th has also decided to ban illegal wild animals, which are pointed out as the source of the new coronavirus, and to ban them from eating unnecessarily.