A reporter takes note with her microphone close to a wall speaker during the Fifth Session of the 11th National People's Congress in Beijing on March 5, 2012. [Photo by Lu Jun/ For China Daily]

Zhang Chunxian, Party secretary of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, is surrounded by reporters after a meeting of deputies from Xinjiang to the National People's Congress in Beijing on March 7, 2012. [Feng Yongbin / China Daily]