(Yicai) Feb. 29 -- Employment and entrepreneurship are the areas that most people hope will be addressed at the Two Sessions, the country’s key annual policy setting meetings that kick off next month, according to a recent study.

Almost half of respondents, at 48.6 percent, in a poll recently conducted by the China Youth Daily said that they are most interested in issues to do with employment and entrepreneurship.

They hope that delegates to the Two Sessions will make proposals that can strengthen the protection of labor rights, ensure that urban development benefits the younger generation and guide college students to plan their careers and lives in a sensible manner.

Education, healthcare, housing, elderly care, childbirth, marriage and technological innovation are all topics of concern, according to the survey which polled 2,002 people with an average age of 30 years. Over 80 percent of them have received higher education and 78.1 percent said that they would take part in discussions at the Two Sessions.

Almost half of respondents, at 46.6 percent, said that they hope that delegates will propose measures to improve social security and medical insurance schemes for freelance workers.

And 44.1 percent said they would like the supply of affordable housing to be increased and the management of real estate firms to be standardized through legal and regulatory means.

Some 44 percent said institutions of higher education should improve career guidance so that graduates can make full use of their education.

Some 2,966 National People’s Congress deputies and 2,169 Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference members will descend on Beijing when the Two Sessions begin on March 4.

Editor: Kim Taylor