Last weekend, the Chinese Consulate General in Lagos hosted for the first time a post Two Sessions dialogue to discuss and analyse the outcomes of the 2025 parliamentary sitting of China.
Two Sessions is an annual sitting of the Chinese parliament or legislature which starts in the first week of March and lasts for about eight days.
It is named Two Sessions because of the parallel sitting of the National People’s Congress (NPC), the country’s highest policy-making body and the elected deputies that make up the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Congress (CPPCC).
The Consul General in Lagos Ms. Yan Yuqing hosted a team of journalists and the academia from mainly the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) to discuss the outcomes of the 2025 parliamentary meeting.
The discourse hosted under the banner of the Lagos Forum started last year by Consul General Yan had Nigerian experts speak on the gains of the parliamentary session to the leadership of China since the People’s Republic era headed by the Communist Party of China (CPC)
The dialogue named Lagos Forum Think Tank & Media Dialogue and Two Sessions Briefing provided an opportunity for experts to discuss and deliberate on the importance of China the global order and the influence on other countries of the world.
They also analysed the peculiar Chinese political system that is completely different others and peculiar to the country and how the system has engendered unequalled development and advancement of the country over the years.
In her keynote address at the dialogue, Yan listed the gains of the Chinese leadership and also how it has worked out a fruitful relationship with Nigeria and Africa, with a promise that China is committed to making the lies better.
One of the speakers at the event. Prof. Efem Ubi, Director of Studies at the NIIA emphasised the key role China plays in consolidation inclusion, globalisation and the consideration of the interest of the weaker countries as opposed to the stance of some other powerful countries.
He hailed China for standing firm in its peculiar political system, growing its country and contributing enormously to global growth.
The Nigerian Director of Research of the Institute of African Studies of Zhejiang Normal University (IASZNU), Ikenna Emewu challenged other countries of the world to emulate China in forging unique and original political systems like China did, which has worked so well for it.
The journalist and Editor-in-Chief of Africa China Economy Magazine denounced the penchant for blind copying of Western democratic political system without adapting it to the local realities of the people, especially among African countries.
He challenged them to take after China to discover and work on a workable political system that would stimulate growth in the African countries.
Top media experts at the event were drawn from The Money Report, The Niche Newspaper Online, The Sun, The Guardian, Thisday Newspapers, Channels TV, CGTN and TV360 Nigeria
