Understanding the world's most populous country is key to understanding headlines that come from the Two Sessions. Current affairs commentator Einar Tangen offers another look at China. He says that new policy or law is carefully measured against the long and intermediate-range plans and then sent down for comments and proposals for specific implementation actions, and that different systems have different procedures. China spends about 100 times more time, in the beginning, to make sure its policies and laws are practical, harmonized and implemented.