she insists on staying in beijing. she works at an online auction house, specialize anything jewelry. she is supposed to get two days off a week, but ends up working extra days. she often leaves home at 9:00 a.m. and returns after 11:00 p.m. her roommates both work in design. they also work long hours. and are rarely >> he works at a company in of b b bay jig's biggest district. built it from a small firm from a few employees to 20. president lee young was senior staff at a company who previously worked at, when lee decided to launch his own company, who resolved to help. now, she is in charge of developing sales strategies based on client data. in addition, she is studying jewelry in her free time to search for new business opportunities. who is indispensable to her company. during college, because their lives went separate ways since they gan working. since then, she has bon focusing solely on work. on this day, hu continued as usual. working until late at night. in the beautifully lit city, many couples enjoy the ch

we now have use of beijing. -- views in beijing. reporter: people are allowed to report from tiananmen square, it has been 10 days of political pageantry known as the people's congress. behind me, 3000 delegates are gathered, from top officials to representatives from the military, as well as cultural spheres, ethnic minority groups as well. they are all descending upon the nation's capital to discuss the next five-year development plan. it is known as something of a river step. we spoke to some delegates to see with a hope to achieve. >> i hope track to build a moderate, prosperous society within the five-year plan. i hope our people can live happily. our workuld solidify while maintaining reform and opening up and adhering to the four cover hence is -- comprehensives put forward by the party. it is something we should do in the new normal phase. we are looking forward to see how supply-side reforms will be carried out. kong can make use of its advantages in carrying out the 13th five-year plan. i hope to take this message back to

beijing plans to add 10,000 more bikes this year. there was a time of course when of bicycles. in 1980, more than 60% of commuters rode bikes. by 2000 that number dropped to 3%. and by 2013. fewer than 12% of chinese commuters rode bicycles. the communist party aims to get the numbers back up to 18% by 2020. beijing was inspired by the success of bike sharing programs in paris and amsterdam and looked to new york city for tips on adding bicycle lanes. special lanes are already being built in china's capital to improve safety. he would welcome anything that would make his commute a tad less hair-raising. >> translator: my fantasy is more bike riders will gin me, he said, and fight for space on the road. urban planners across china are looking at a number of ways to try to battle pollution. to develop a network of ventilation corridors which would beat smog by linking parks, rivers, and low rise >>> spring break for millions of college students. that means beaches, beer and sometimes trouble. mark strassmann is in miami where the polic

another big issue for beijing is income inequality. some 600 million people live on farmland where infrastructure is poor and jobs are limited. the gap between urban and rural communities is a problem that leaders can no longer neglect. beijing wants to turn farming communities and regional towns in to cities with enough jobs and social security benefits. >> translator: china is at the center of your been consolidation. there's room for industries to go. in the central and western regions there's huge capacity for more effective capacity. >> the problem is to encourage farmers to move into these cities and become part avenue middle class population. let's take a look at an example of how this would work. as china developed economically places like guizhou province got left behind. officials are construct agnew type of city here to house local farmers. >> translator: this is a hospital, and this school will provide education from kindergarten all the way up to university. >> local authorities plan to move farmers in from surrounding are

about a quarter of 1% as the key clinical session wraps up in beijing. out for the conference to see what the premier has to say about the reform. overall rebalancing in the economy. we are seeing some downside in exports. 1%. by 7/10 of tameg a little bit of today after the bank of japan announcement yesterday. today,g in parliament will not hesitate to end in all three forms should the economy desire it. they see room to add further into negative, maybe negative half percent. watching players in china because we had comments coming through saying beijing has to do more to try to stabilize the housing market to cool down the major cities. seeing astronomical prices. these are the biggest drivers when it comes to the australian session. rishaad: thank you, heidi. donald trump big winner today. five more states. front runners projected to have both one three states so far. washington bureau manager is watching in new york will stop what is the latest? what have we learned? a very good night for the front runners. theary clinton is sweeping board so far wi

just over a year ago he came to beijing from a village in hunan province. narrator: wang hao dropped out of school at age 16 after just a year of vocational high school. while most urban students attend high school only half of poor rural children do. education is necessary for rural youth to break the cycle of poverty. but like wang hao many complain that the substandard quality of rural education leaves them little hope. narrator: china's dream rests on rapid urbanization and consumerism, but china's cities scarcely embrace their current migrant populations. one-third of china's 700 million urban dwellers are still classified as rural rather than urban. this means that they have little or no access to social services like schools, hospitals, and pensions in the cities where they live. yang lu has been in beijing for several years already but is still grappling with the metropolis. narrator: china's youth largely made up of single children are pushed to succeed academically. but for many women as soon as they graduate and start establishing careers, there

. >>> for insight on china's new economic policy, we have a commentator in beijing. he was stationed there until two years ago and covered the chinese economy. >> translator: chinese leaders want to double the size of the economy over the ten year period to 2020. that means for the next five years, they need to hit that 6.5% level. but at the same time, they are shifting their focus away from rapid growth to structural reform. china's economy has been growing for decades. that's created dramatic wealth inequality and caused severe damage to the environment. the government believes it needs to slow down and start overhauling some state-owned enterprises. >> translator: we have taken into consideration the need to finish building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and the need to advance structural reform. >> akihiro, investor george soros said in january that a hard landing is unavoidable for the chinese economy. what's beijing's take on that? >> he said that a hard landing would absolutely not happen. he said if china can keep its economy expanding at le

seth doan is in beijing. >> reporter: at this roadside beijing job fair those searching for work told us it's getting tougher. does china's slowing economy affect you personally in any way? >> translator: yes i can feel the pressure she told us. the economy is slowing. industries are facing lots of changes. >> they have spent massive amounts of money building >> reporter: this professor says michael pettis china faces a debt crisis after borrowing tens of trillions of dollars for iffy investments, real estate and shipping. >> beijing has never gotten its arms around the problem of debt. until it does, things will continue to get worse. >> reporter: now china is trying to rebalance its economy. leading to massive layoffs and government owned industries. bought mid the backdrop of labor protest thousands. state media has run a slew of glowing, good news stories. and the president visited top state media outlets in february urging the press to pledge loyalty to the communist party. it is an effort to control the story and project stability. >> the fear is. it is possible for beijing to m

issues,e a host of environmental issues, because beijing as having smog. rishaad: as we have been seeing this morning. orl these just be headlines will they actually have substance? a good is indeed question. we have heard about supply-side reform for a while, so everybody is looking for some specifics. the government has out find -- steel industrye cutting 10% of excess capacity, but how will they do it. what are some of the measures to make sure that this will actually go ahead? also, -- rishaad: the excess capacity is actually a big problem, isn't it? you can only address it if you make a lot of people unemployed. have unemployed people, they are unhappy, and the central government does not want to see people unhappy. >> the excess capacity industries such as steel are not solely labor intensive. they are facing today is less than in the 1990's. also, the central governments budget and fiscal situation is stronger than back then. what he can do is set aside some funding to help settle the unemployed workers, to help train them and find better jobs. that

elites political are gathering in beijing. there are demands and pressures to find a balance between growth and reform, as well as improve the environment. goldman sachs and bank of america are planning job cuts as returns.t rut goldman sachs will eliminate 5% of traders. meanwhile, bank of america will dismiss about 150 trading and investment bank employees next week. legal proceedings have started over a ledge it market -- over alleged market manipulation. anz denies wrongdoing and says it will fight the case. the german finance minister has made his feelings about a potential brexit clear. he appeared alongside george osborne in the british chamber of commerce's annual meeting in london. >> we would -- [indiscernible] not. hope we will nejra: global news, 24 hours a day, powered by 2400 journalists and more than 150 news bureaus around the world. hans, i don't think we want to see schaeuble cry. hans: it is nice to hear him have a sense of humor in english. meanwhile, the head of the world's largest hedge fund says investor

seth doane is in beijing. >> reporter: at this beijing job fair, those searching for work told us it's getting tougher. affect you personally in any way? "yes, i can feel the pressure," niu sisi told us. "the economy is slowing and industries are facing lots of changes." >> they've spent massive amounts of money building unnecessary things. >> reporter: peking university finance professor michael pettis says china faces a debt crisis after borrowing tens of trillions of dollars for iffy investments in areas like real estate and shipping. >> beijing has never gotten its arms around the problem of debt. until it does, things will continue to get worse. >> reporter: now china is trying to rebalance its economy, leading to massive layoffs in government-owned industries. but amid the back drop of labor protests... >> china is fully capable. >> reporter: state media has run a slew of glowing, good-news stories. president xi jinping visited top urging the press to pledge loyalty to the communist party. it's an effort to control the story and project stability. >> the fear is that it's still p

seth doane, cbs news, beijing. >> pelley: a trailblazer for women has died. elizabeth strohfus earned two congressional gold medals for her work as a world war ii military pilot. she was 96 and will be buried in her native minnesota. strohfus and women like her, buried at america's premier military cemetery. that is a battle that is not over. here's david martin. >> reporter: elaine harmon was one of a chosen few, the wartime service immortalized in news reels. >> first woman in the history of america to fly military aircraft. >> reporter: she was a wasp -- women's air force service pilot, one of about 1,000 who signed up during world war ii when a shortage of male pilots forced the military to do what it had never done. >> the training program is exactly the same one the male cadets are going threw all over the country. >> reporter: the wasps were not sale into combat but remained stateside. >> her mission was to train mail pilots that needed either refresher courses on planes or to learn about new planes that were coming out. >> reporter: her grandmother di

we have been gauging the fuse in beijing -- engaging the views in beijing. china's national people's congress behind me, some 3000 delegates gathered from top officials to representatives from the military, as well as cultural spheres, minority groups as well, descending on the nations capital to discuss the next five-year plan. we spoke to some of the delegates to see what they hope to achieve. >> i hope china can build a byern prosperous society 2020. i hope are people can live happily. work should solidify our while maintaining reform and opening up, it hearing to the four cup brands of put by the comprehensivesur put forward by the party. were looking to see how supply-side reforms will be carried out. i hope hong kong can make use of its advantages in caring out the 13th five-year plan. i hope to take this message back to hong kong. i really want to know how my hometown can take advantage of the policies under the 13th i've your plan. says oneour next guest thing is absent from the five-year plan she joins us now and talks about china policy and risk. g

beijing is too expensive. it's so hard to make money. >> that's not the direction the communist party wants people to go. they want more people in cities, working, and spending. and what the president calls, the china dream. scott hideler, al jazeera. beijing. >> tibetans have held a prayer ceremony for a young monk who died after setting himself on fire. 16-year-old kos long died on thursday three days in the tibetan. he was protesting. it will marks the second such protest this year. at least sixty people have been injured on water taxi in bankock in the eastern outskirts when the blast happened. most of those on board reportedly suffered burns. philippines has i am pound add north koreaina shock docked in man ill a, the first time new u.n. sanctions have been enforced imposed after the nuclear missile test. so far, no response from trans. harry faucet is in soma, japan. >> nothing controversial found on board this ship in terms of the cargo when it arrived in the philippines. it was carrying oil palm kernel

beijing is so expensive. hard to make money. >> it's not the direction the communist party wants people to go. they want more people in cities, spending. heading to what is called the china dream >>> a political and economic affairs commentator says slower growth in the economy is the result of structural reform. >> people are reading a little more into this than there. it's fine to say you are a street vendor and things aren't going well. the economic numbers is a bit higher. the reality on the ground, as usual, is different to what you see when with the political commentators, the question is can the problems that are faced in the developmented countries be solved. >> even the experts say those days are gone, and you have to reach structural reforms. can it be done in u.s. and in europe? >> china is attempting to do that as it attempts to climb out of the middle income trop. and that's why you see this stressed at the lower end. that would bring it to a 2020 goal of being around the 12,000 income that is ty

i am back in beijing, but the economy is still the same. it is chugging along at a slower pace, mostly bad news on the eco-front for that combine january-february time span. there are always seasonal distortions. great tolooking that reach the growth target of at least 6.5% growth this year, especially since the pboc governor says no major stimulus is needed. as there isn't any big financial or economic turmoil, the pboc will keep its prudent monetary policy with a slight easing bias. we have seen six and just rate cuts and a little more than a year. that has yet to feed into any kind of noticeable recovery. there has been stabilization, but recovery yet the sea. industrial output in that combine time rising just 5.4%, below estimates, suggesting sluggishness in demand at home and abroad. deflation has existed that persisted for 48 consecutive months. barometeres, a key for consumption and getting people to spend more their they, climbed just 10.2% in january-february time, missing the 11% forecast from economists surveyed by bloomberg. thi

his hard-hitting stories eventually got him fired, so he continued his work as the beijing editor of china dialogue, an online international journal. [liu speaking chinese] fred: but after 10 years of reporting, he was feeling burnedut. [liu speaking chinese] translator: i think that our environmental activists and those who work for public welfare need more powerful spiritual support. why? every day what we do may be good deeds which give us positive energy, but meanwhile what we are facing is the darkest side of the world. every day what we see is polluted air, polluted rivers, and the slaughter of wild animals. this kind of negative energy attacks us all the time. we've been working on environmental protection for a long time, but the situation in china is getting worse every day. where do we draw our strength from? fred: liu jianqiang is one of millions of chinese who are returning to buddhist, taoist, and confucian temples that were once condemned by the government. a little more than four decades ago during chi's ltural revolution, many buddhist temples like this one in central

scott has more from beijing. >> reporter: he has been selling fruit at the morning market here in beijing since 2010. business is slow. >> translator: who is my boss? the communist party. where do the customers go? you have to ask the communist party. business was really bad in the past year. >> reporter: he is not alone and has been a turbulent year for many people in china, economic growth is at the lowest in slowest in 25 years and six kilometers away the most important event on the calendar is playing out, china the last major communist nation has changed considerably over 30 years but the national people's congress has remained. 3,000 delegates from across the nation attend. china's premier league opened the congress with a report on the last year and was mildly critical of the communist party. >> translator: there are still inadequacies in the work of the government, some reforms, policies and measures have not been fully implemented. >> reporter: he went on to say more work needs to be done on government corruption and misconduct and that it's not just china's economy that is slowi

beijing plans to add 10,000 more bike this year. there was a time, of course, when china was known as the kingdom of bicycles. in 1980, more than 60% of commuters rode bikes. by 2000, that number dropped to 38%. and by 2014, fewer than 12% of the communist party aims to get those numbers back up to 18% by 2020. bay schickler was inspired by the success of bike-sharing programs in paris and amsterdam and looked to new york city for tips on adding bicycle lanes. special lanes are already being built in china's capital to improve safety. he would welcome anything that would make his commute a tad less hair-raising. my fantasy is more bike riders will join me, he said, and fight for space on the road. urban planners across china are looking at a number of ways to try to battle pollution. here in beijing they're looking to develop a network of ventilation quarters which would beat smog by linking parks, rivers, and low-rise buildings to try to impreev air flow. doane in beijing. >>> tinder is putting out a wild fire on social media. see

seth doan, cbs news, beijing. >>> a trail blazer for women has died. elizabeth strofus earned two congressional gold medals for her work as world war ii military pilot. she was 96. and will be buried in her native minnesota. >>> women are not allowed to be buried a a battle that is n here is david martin. >> elaine harman, her war time service immortalized in news reels. >> the first woman in the history america. a wasp, women air force service pilot. one of 1,000 who signed up during world war ii when a shortage of male pilots forced the military to do what it had never done. >> the training program is exactly the same as what male ka dealts were going through all over the country. >> the wasps were not sent into combat but reamemained state si. >> she trained male pilots that needed refresher courses on planes or learn about new planes coming out. >> reporter: aaron miller's grandmother died last year at 95. >> what were her wishes when she passed away? >> her wishes were to be buried at arlington cemetery. >> she left handwritten instructions. the d

he also reemphasized stronger ties with beijing. >> there has been no compromise towards citizens seeking genuine democracy or true universal suffrage. in this episode, we see where the people of the umbrella revolution are now and hear their thoughts for the future. we began our filming for this episode roughly a week before the 18th anniversary of hong kong's return to chinese rule. we had been following the prodemocracy movement since last year's anniversary. and we're there the night before the umbrella revolution reached its peak.re there the night bef the umbrella revolution reached its peak.,. and were there the night before the umbrella revolution reached its pea and were there the night before the umbrella revolution reached its peak. by the time marchers reached the square in front of the hong kong government headquarters, protesters were already occupying the central district. over 100,000 people blocked the streets. protesters of all ages passionately cried out for hong kong's future until everything was forcefully broken up on december 15th. some students still visit the heav

china's political elite are in beijing to approve the 13th five-year plan. they are under mounting pressure as improveas well the environment. npc officially begins tomorrow. of clearet in terms policy announcements and how are they going to tackle a slowdown? eidi: guy, that's right. we know we are going to get a lot of political pageantry. the key political event of the year. i think most analysts are managing their expectations. this is not a platform where you see surprises. it has been drafted a long time in advance. there is a reason why we refer to it as a rubberstamp parliament. very difficult conundrum. they are looking to prop up short-term growth, the slowest pushingars, but also through supply-side reforms to these steel and coal, sectors that are not only wildly unprofitable but also conjured into the situation behind me where you have excessive pollution happening. are environmental and policy reasons why politicians have to stop dragging their --ls on thsese refose on these reforms. we are hearing potentially six or 8 million jobs slashed with