Deputy seeks to bolster Hezhe tourism

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Even during the Spring Festival holiday, Liu Lei kept busy preparing for the upcoming annual session of the National People's Congress.

As a Heilongjiang province deputy to the National People's Congress, the country's top legislature, Liu, 37, hopes to propose a border tourism pilot zone in Tongjiang, a county-level city under Jiamusi.