People at grassroots express hopes for top meetings

It was a chilly and snowy morning in early February, and worried that villagers suffering from high blood pressure might lose their balance and slip in the snow, Gao Jie, the only physician in the village of Tongchuan in Hebei province, started his busy workday with home visits and health checks.

About a three-hour drive from Beijing, the village has been relying on Gao's steady service for 24 years.

Ahead of the two sessions in early March — the meetings of China's top legislature and top political advisory body — China Daily reached out to ordinary people like Gao in different sectors of society to hear what they expect from the top-level meetings.