China's parliament, the National People’s Congress, will begin its annual meeting today, after a two-month delay, due to the coronavirus outbreak, Yvonne Murray reports from Beijing.
As travel restrictions ease, schools begin to re-open and people get back to work, it will be a moment for the Chinese Communist Party to declare victory over the Covid-19 pandemic that brought the country to a standstill in January.
While normality returns for this country’s 1.4bn citizens, the virus continues to wreak devastation overseas, straining China’s relationship with the rest of the world and laying waste to its friendship with the US.