Cai Yingbo

COOPERATION between Shenzhen and Hong Kong will be one of the most important topics at the annual session of the Fourth Shenzhen Municipal Committee of the CPPCC starting today.

Among 78 proposals the committee had received by 5 p.m. yesterday, most focus on higher education, management of migrant workers, community construction and medicare, according to the local CPPCC.

More than 400 members, including 52 new ones, had registered yesterday on the eve of the opening of the session.

Of the members, 83 percent have bachelor degrees or above with an average age of 44.7 years.

This is the first time the local CPPCC has invited migrant workers, experts and returned Chinese scholars to attend the annual event as observers.

Li Yixin, a migrant worker in a company in Longgang District, was one of the earliest to register yesterday.

“It is a great honor to be invited to the local CPPCC annual session as a migrant worker, and I would raise people’s awareness of some problems created by hukou and express my concern over back wages, welfare and children’s education,” said Li.

The annual session of the city’s top political advisory body will end April 12.