Notice No.14 On the 2nd Plenary Session of the 1st Session of the 12th National People’s Congress

The 2nd Plenary Session of the 1st Session of the 12th National People’s Congress will be convened at 15:00 on March 8th, 2013 (Friday) at the Great Hall of the People(GHP). The session will hear the report on the work of the NPC Standing Committee delivered by Chairman Wu Bangguo of the NPC Standing Committee.

Journalists shall go through security check at the south passage of the East Gate of the GHP with NPC press cards 80 minutes in advance. Journalists with press cards marked with number “2”and “3” should be seated in Area No. 3, 5 and 7 on the SECOND floor. Live coverage on all floors should be stopped 5 minutes before the session. Please keep quiet after the session begins.

The staff of the Press Center will start to hand out the major documents at the designated areas inside the GHP 60 minutes before the session. Domestic journalists and journalists from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan please collect the documents in the Press Conference Hall on the north side of the first floor. Foreign journalists please collect the documents on the south side of the second floor.

Journalists may conduct interviews in the area below the steps out of the East Entrance, or the area outside of the Grand Auditorium of the GHP before or after the session. Journalists may also conduct interviews with the Ministers sitting in on the session in the designated area east of the North Hall of the GHP. All such covering and interviews should end 15 minutes before the session. Please do not conduct interviews on the road on the west of Tiananmen Square so as not to cause congestion.

Journalists with vehicle passes should drive into Tiananmen Square by the entrance on the road on the east of the square and park the vehicles in the designated area.