As China's annual rubberstamp parliament comes to a close, there are still looming questions about whether policymakers are doing enough to tackle the country's economic malaise, writes Kathleen Calderwood.
Walking through Beijing's hutongs, you can easily see the image Xi Jinping's government wants to project to the world.
Midway through her explanation, one of her colleagues yells across the shop that they are losing money. Two women from Beijing say they are on good salaries as employees of a state-owned enterprise and tell me they live comfortably without financial pressures.Walking the streets of Beijing, it does feel like everyone is on alert.
While the delegates and politicians have been laying out their plans for the next year, security and police have been out in force, lining the streets to deter any would-be troublemakers. Having returned after the Chinese New Year holiday, they have struggled to find manufacturing jobs like they would have secured before.Roughly an hour's drive from the centre of Beijing, you can see hundreds of these workers gathered along the street in the city's outer suburbs, hoping they might get picked for a job.
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