Premier Li Keqiang vowed to build a sound social security net for the public, including an integrated pension arrangement for rural and urban residents.

China has attached high attention on government debt and risks in this area are generally within control, Premier Li Keqiang said at a press conference on Thursday.

China has set a timetable for improving oversight of the ballooning shadow banking sector and will implement Basel III requirements, Premier Li Keqiang said.

A suggestion that the top legislature consider drafting a national anti-terrorism law following this month's fatal attack in Kunming has been made by deputies.

Anti-corruption drive has resulted in a decline in the number of people willing to work for the civil service.

Central bank will liberalize its deposit interest rate in one or two years, says bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan.

China will introduce its plans on raising the retirement age before 2020, a senior official has pledged.

China will proceed with the trial program of setting up baby hatches, said the nation's top civil affair chief.

China will continue its anti-graft measures against top government officials, said Huang Shuxian, minister of supervision, on Sunday.

China vows no compromise with Japan on history and territory, says Foreign Minister Wang Yi at a press conference on Saturday.

In a rare display of confidence in the country's management of genetically modified food, China's top agriculture official said he eats GM food.

The number of terrorist attacks in Xinjiang has been kept to a minimum by the imposition of a range of counterterrorism measures.

National lawmakers from Central China's Hubei province have called for drafting laws on ecological compensation mechanisms to better support the country’s efforts to protect the environment.

Northeast China's Liaoning province will continue to invest heavily to conserve its once heavily polluted environment.

Helping the government solve people's livelihood issues is high on the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference's to-do list this year.