The third session of China's 13th National People's Congress (NPC) closed on Thursday. The country's legislative season undergone the blow of the COVID-19 pandemic that caused an unprecedented global health crisis and hammered the world economy.

Against such backdrop, CGTN has talked with many lawmakers and political advisers to find out more of their insights on issues they are most aware of at Two Sessions this year. 

Yang Yuanqing, NPC Deputy, Lenovo Chairman and CEO:

"COVID-19 pandemic has had hurt the economy in the first quarter, but this impact will not affect the fundamentals of China's long-term economic growth." 

"I am still full of confidence in China's economic development prospects this year. The new infrastructure vigorously promoted by the state, including the intelligent technology in ICT fields such as 5G, artificial intelligence, data center, industrial Internet, is the new driving force for us to promote the transformation and upgrading of industrial intelligence and realize the high-quality development of China's economy."

Vincent Mo, CPPCC Member, chairman of Fang.com:

"China is reopening everything, and China is the first major economy in the world which is going to rebound quickly and strongly with the economy."

Zhou Hongyi, CPPCC Member, chairman and CEO of Qihoo 360 Technology: 

"As the largest cybersecurity company in China, of course, our proposals are focused on cybersecurity, I think new infrastructure is a good strategy, but all the new infrastructure uses new digital technology, so challenges exist. Cybersecurity no longer only affects the virtual space, but extends to the real world, having a serious impact on national, social and personal security."

Li Dongsheng, NPC Deputy, chairman of TCL Corp:

"The digital management ability of enterprises has been implemented for a long time in the whole manufacturing industry of China. The COVID-19 pandemic also urged some applications of manufacturing industry to be carried out online to reduce the contact between people so that we will speed up this kind of networking, and the progress of digitalization will also let people see more demands and find more opportunities in these technology applications."

Wang Xiaochuan, CPPCC member, Sogou CEO:

"I focus more on the responsibilities and capabilities of AI itself. On the one hand, we know that with the development of artificial intelligence, there will also be some concerns. For example, with the development of artificial intelligence technology, there will be a better imitation of looks and sounds, so the public will have concerns about whether there will be any such infringement or fraud. We need to have some legislation on this. On the other hand, the legislation in these places can help everyone improve their safety and promote the development of artificial intelligence. What's more, the draft civil law also began to pay attention to the relevant legislative work, the protection of portraits' rights, and voices."

" In the medical field, our medical resources are relatively concentrated in cities, especially in the top-three hospitals. Even so, eight percent of the doctors in such top-three hospitals undertake 50 percent of the patients, so in this case, when you are in the vast countryside or the community, the medical resources are far from enough. We think it is necessary to allocate this kind of resource to the grass-root level, especially the use of information technology and artificial intelligence technology to help upgrade grass-roots diagnosis and treatment and improving grass-roots public health services in rural areas."