(Yicai) March 8 -- As the world marks International Women's Day, we highlight some of the women taking part in the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, China’s two key annual policy-setting meetings.

Table tennis champion Li Xiaoxia speaks at the plenary session of the Liaoning delegation to the second session of the 14th NPC on March 6.

NPC deputies Yue Qiaoyun (left) and Han Fengxiang (right) being interviewed by the media. Han supports modern agriculture in Lishu country, Jilin province, while Yue uses e-commerce platforms to help sell peaches from an orchard in Beijing.

Zhen Lanfang, a deputy to the NPC and the headmistress of a rural primary school in Yunnan province, answers questions outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 5.

Minawaer Aibibula, an expert on ancient Uzbek manuscripts, attends the plenary session of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region delegation to the second session of the 14th NPC yesterday.

Wang Yaping, a Chinese astronaut and a member of the National Committee of the CPPCC, smiles during an interview on March 4.

Editor: Martin Kadiev