First, domestic hot news:

March 5th is the first day of the opening of the Fifth Session of the 11th National People's Congress in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. On the afternoon of the same day, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, president and Hu Jintao, Chairman of the Central Military Commission, came to the West Hall of the Great Hall of the People to attend the meeting of Jiangsu delegation, and reviewed the government work report with more than 50 delegates. The general secretary pointed out that Jiangsu's economic and social development has stood at a new starting point. He encouraged Jiangsu to give full play to its comparative advantages and leading role, take new steps in adhering to scientific development, transforming the mode of economic development, coordinating urban and rural regional development, ensuring and improving people's livelihood, deepening reform and opening up, and promoting the great development and prosperity of socialist culture, taking the lead in building a well-off society in an all-round way and starting a new journey of basically realizing modernization.

Yan Qingmin, member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and assistant to the chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission, recently told the media that the National Development and Reform Commission will conduct a major inspection of bank charges in March. The reporter learned from authoritative sources yesterday that the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) will carry out a nationwide inspection of bank charges in the near future, and will carry out this inspection in the form of transferring price law enforcement personnel from different places, cross-checking and next-level inspection. In order to regulate the problem of arbitrary charges by banks, in February this year, the China Banking Regulatory Commission issued a relevant notice, putting forward the principle of "seven prohibitions", including the prohibition of lending, the prohibition of linking deposits and loans, and the prohibition of loan charges. Since then, the National Development and Reform Commission, the China Banking Regulatory Commission and the Central Bank jointly issued the Measures for the Administration of Service Prices of Commercial Banks (Draft for Comment), clearly stating that the service prices of grass-roots commercial banks closely related to people's lives will be subject to government guidance or government pricing; The prices set by commercial banks themselves must be clearly marked.

Jiang Zhixue, director of the Science and Education Department of the State Sports General Administration, responded for the first time to the news that some media reported that individual sports teams were "raising chickens". He said that the State General Administration of Sport did impose corresponding restrictions and regulations on national team athletes going out to eat. This is because athletes have special requirements for food safety, so the general public need not panic about food safety. Jiang Zhixue said, first of all, the State Sports General Administration has never asked athletes to raise chickens and pigs. Secondly, because of the particularity of athletes' occupation, they have special needs in anti-doping in diet and medical care, which are different from ordinary people. Therefore, the State Sports General Administration has always had strict management regulations on national team athletes going out to eat, and it will naturally be stricter when the competition is near. For the intake of food such as animal viscera and liver, corresponding requirements are put forward.

According to foreign media reports, this year, China's expenditure on maintaining stability exceeded 700 billion yuan, exceeding the military budget. A person from the Ministry of Finance retorted yesterday that this expenditure is public security expenditure, and foreign media are stealing concepts. Relevant persons from the Ministry of Finance explained that public security expenditure covers public health, public transportation, building safety and many other fields and cannot be called maintenance fees. For example, the investment involved in strengthening the capacity building of food inspection and testing in grass-roots supervision departments and promoting food safety is also included in this project. Foreign media deliberately confuse concepts and deliberately speculate. This person said that except for the United States and France, most countries in the world spend more on public security than on military expenditure. Therefore, it is normal that China's public security expenditure slightly exceeds its military expenditure.

Second, foreign hot news:

According to the website of the Ministry of Commerce, the French newspaper Echo reported on March 6 that over the past month or so, China, the United States, India and Russia have opposed the EU's aviation carbon tax collection, and the upcoming EU legislation on this tax may lead to retaliatory measures from China and India. The report said that despite the pressure, the EU refused to make concessions, and it is expected that this issue will also be discussed at the EU Environment Ministers' Meeting this Friday.

On the 5th, the US "China Committee of Congress and Executive Branch" held a so-called "China Repatriation of North Korean Refugees" hearing in Congress to discuss the recent North Korean "defectors". Chris smith, the representative of New Jersey and chairman of the China Committee on Congress and Administration, who presided over the hearing, said that China's repatriation of defectors violated relevant international laws. Earlier, China said many times that the so-called "defectors" illegally entered China mainly for economic purposes, and there was not enough basis to classify them as "refugees".

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov said in Moscow on the 6th that Russia is prepared to discuss the possibility of placing Iran's nuclear program under the comprehensive supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency in future consultations between Iran and six countries (the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany) in order to lift the unilateral sanctions against Iran. Last June, 5438+065438+ 10, the International Atomic Energy Agency issued a report saying that Iran had organized and systematically engaged in activities related to nuclear explosive devices at least before the end of 2003. After the report was published, the United States and the European Union increased their sanctions against Iran, and the United States and Israel frequently threatened to use force against Iraq.