Chinese President Xi Jinping may have gathered up nearly all the power for himself, but the country’s No. 2 leader, Premier Li Keqiang, still gets to be the center of attention in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People on the opening day of the National People’s Congress annual plenary session. The big event of the day is Mr. Li’s delivery of the annual government work report, which state media describe as China’s version of the U.S. State of the Union address. It’s a bit more wooden than that, though Mr. Li broke out an Obama-esque flourish on Thursday morning by dropping in a term that’s popular online – renxing (任性), roughly “doing whatever one wants.”

“It goes without saying, having power doesn’t mean you can do whatever you want,” he said, to appreciative applause from the legislature’s 3,000 or so attending delegates.

Aside from the work report, Thursday saw the release of the Ministry of Finance’s budget report and the national planning agency’s draft plan for economic and social development. The reports make for turgid reading, but they contain important indications of how Beijing views the economy and its plans for the future. Online versions of the reports typically don’t show up on official websites until much later, so China Real Time has scanned and uploaded the files, in both English and Chinese, in text-searchable format.

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Report on the Work of the Government (Premier Li Keqiang)

National Development and Reform Commission Draft Plan for National Economic and Social Development

Ministry of Finance Budget Report

Other reports: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014.