The Two Sessions are the concurrent annual meetings of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), which begins on March 4, and the National People’s Congress (NPC), which opens on March 5. The meetings are likely to conclude around March 11.
The CPPCC is a United Front organization that mobilizes social groups to support and advise the Party-state. The NPC is China’s unicameral legislature and notionally the supreme organ of state power. Both bodies are under the control of the Communist Party of China (CPC), but they serve distinct and important political functions.
