China's Most Important Political Event Of The Year Has Begun - Here's What's Going To Happen

China's National People's Congress, arguably its most important political event of the year, is on from March 5 - 17.

This is the meeting that will see Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang appointed to the positions of president and premier respectively.

We have already reported the highlights from outgoing premier Wen Jiabao's Government Work Report, the Chinese equivalent of the State of the Union speech.

And we have mentioned the NPC will vote on two key bills in the next two weeks, one on land reform, and the other to merge the Ministry of Railways with the Ministry of Transportation.

Here's a look at the schedule for the NPC from Societe Generale and Wen Wei Po: