Last year, the committee held training programs seven times for deputies, on subjects such as how to lift people out of poverty, how to promote people's livelihoods and how to better review budgets.
Launched in 2016, the project has invited well-known artists and designers from China and overseas to integrate art and color into local culture, with the aim of caring for children and protecting animals.
Lawmakers have taken note of progress made on both fronts, Li said, calling for more efforts to help improve the environment and advance poverty alleviation.
Laurence Zhang, a 23-year-old mainland graduate of Hong Kong Baptist University, said he would be pleased if this campaign would promote "sincere communication" between young people in Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland.
Last year, the population of Beijing stood at more than 20 million and the city's annual GDP was more than 3.5 trillion yuan (2.4 billion).
Leaders from China and the EU jointly announced the signing of a bilateral agreement on Monday to protect 100 of the EU's GIs in China and 100 Chinese GIs in the EU against imitations.
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Leading Chinese life services platform 58.com will step up push to leverage artificial intelligence, virtual reality and big data technologies to help people better buy apartments and search for jobs online.
Lawrence Ma Yan-kwok, chairman of the Hong Kong Legal Exchange Foundation, said to establish a sound legal system and enforcement mechanism requires legal experts to do more research on how the city can enact the law and how to enforce the law after the legislation.
Lau Siu-kai, vice-president of the Chinese Association of Hong Kong and Macao Studies, said most voters, affected by the protracted social unrest, were driven by political turmoil and failed to discharge their duty to bring benefits to the community.
Lee Byong-hyun, chairman of the executive board of UNESCO, said at the session's opening ceremony that multilateral cooperation is crucial in tackling local, regional and global issues.