From March 5 to 13, the second meeting of the Twelfth National People's Congress (NPC) was held in Beijing and Hiking Group Chairman Zhang Jianhua attended the event. During this NPC session, Chairman Zhang conscientiously performed his duties as a NPC member and actively participated in the deliberations and speeches of the Shandong delegation. He gave interviews to China Economic Net, China Network, Dazhong Daily and other media; on social pension issues, he proposed to set up and strengthen a national system of care insurance; on foreign trade, he backed the proposed comprehensive service business development and the establishment of a Qingdao-based demonstration area in advance of the Chinese-Japanese-Korean free trade zone.