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MNI BRIEF: China Cancels Decades-old Routine Premier Presser

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Chinese Premier Li Qiang will not hold a press conference after the National People’s Conference, Lou Qinjian, the spokesman of the NPC, told reporters on Monday in a brief.

“Unless there are special circumstances, there will be no more press conferences by the Premier in the next few years after the NPC,” he said. It is the first time the press conference has been canceled since 1991.

Authorities did not give any explanation for the change.

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