Minister of Human Resources and Social Security Yin Weimin introduced the gradual delayed retirement policy at the Two Sessions press conference. That evening, CCTV's "Two Sessions 1+1" made it a key topic, and Bai Yansong explained it on the program as an inevitable trend whose benefits outweigh its drawbacks.
The General Office of the State Council issued 50 articles of the Overall Plan for Chinese Football Reform and Development, proposing a combination of the whole-nation system and market mechanisms, and incorporating football development into local government performance evaluations.
Ma Xingrui was transferred from Deputy Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of its Political and Legal Affairs Commission to become Shenzhen Municipal Party Secretary.
In March 2015, Colombian customs intercepted a 28,000-ton COSCO cargo ship bound for Cuba, finding 99 rockets, 3,000 artillery shells, 100 tons of military-grade explosives, and 2.6 million detonators, all manufactured by China North Industries Corporation and hidden beneath declared goods.
According to online rumors, in March 2015 Cao Qing, director of the CCP Central Guard Bureau, was transferred to deputy commander of the Beijing Military Region, while deputy director Wang Qing was transferred out in the same batch, and Li Zhanshu concurrently served as first political commissar of the Guard Bureau; the stated reason for his transfer was that Guard Bureau personnel had smuggled ivory during an overseas trip and the matter was leaked to foreign media, and the authorities never determined that Cao Qing himself was involved in the case.