India, March 11 -- China's "Two Sessions", the annual week-long conclave of the National People's Congress (NPC), the country's legislature, ended on Monday, with focus on addressing multiple economic problems including an ailing real estate sector, sluggish consumption and youth unemployment.

The event, attended this year by 3,000-odd handpicked Communist Party of China (CPC) elites, though ceremonial and opaque, allows broad insights into China's policies and priorities for the year ahead.

This year, unsurprisingly, the sessions marked sharper consolidation of President Xi Jinping-led CPC's power and tightening grip on all facets of Chinese life and society. For one, Chinese lawmakers on Monday passed the revised Organic Law of the St...