On March 5, Luo Tao, a deputy to National People’s Congress and chairman of the board of CNMCL, received an interview by the reporter of the Topics in Focus: Strategies from the Two Sessions column of China Central Television. He told the reporter his feeling about the premier’s work report: “I am rather deeply impressed by our steady economic development. Last year, our GDP reached 56.9 trillion RMB, up by 7.7% over the previous year. Such achievement is extremely commendable.”