China’s Rubber-Stamped Lawmakers to Tackle Birth Rate, Economic Woes at Annual ‘Two Sessions’

China launched its “two sessions” — the annual meetings of its top lawmaking body, the National People’s Congress (NPC), and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), an “advisory” body with over 2,000 members — on Monday, seeking to devise ways to reverse its increasingly concerning economic decline.