Moving on to China's biggest annual political session, the Two Sessions. The president of China's Supreme People's Court -- the country's highest -- has delivered its annual work report at the second meeting of the first plenary session of the 13th National People's Congress.

ZHOU QIANG PRESIDENT, CHINA'S SUPREME PEOPLE'S COURT "The Supreme People's Court has resolutely implemented the decisions of the CPC central committee. Eighteen reform-related tasks led by the Supreme People's Court have been completed. Sixty-five measures to comprehensively deepen reform of the People's Court's have been fully implemented. There has been important progress in the judicial reform of the People's Court."

Zhou Qiang said, between 2013 and 2017, the Supreme People's Court was able to wrap up the vast majority of the 82-thousand cases it handled. He added the court processed about 60 percent more cases in this five-year period than in the previous one. Zhou said local-level courts also managed to wrap up most of the 89 million or so cases it handled over the past five years.

The court's president added that about 13,000 people were convicted of offering bribes. These included Yang Xiuzhu, who was No.1 on the list of China's 100 most-wanted fugitives. Zhou said the court always insists on fairness and justice, and he referred to 39 major cases which were overturned.  He said the Intellectual Property Law has been enhanced, and judicial reform further improved, with 65 mew measures having been put in place.