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In the ongoing public hospital reform, Beijing's measures to introduce a medical care service fee is a test to fine-tune the structure of hospitals' incomes.
An autonomous prefecture in Jilin province has started a five-month campaign to crack down on illegal employment, overstaying and illegal entry of foreigners.
More than 300,000 Communist Party grassroots committees have been set up in the country's private sector, up from less than 100,000 about 10 years ago.
Dozens of Chinese teachers at Confucius Institutes in the US could be forced to leave by June 30 due to a State Department directive, head of the institute said.
Directive on Confucius Institutes may harm ties
The government's accumulative "green" investment will hit 170 billion yuan in 2012.
The Azerbaijani embassy in China held a reception on May 24 in Beijing to observe the 20th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
Foreigners worry that China is becoming less friendly towards them after Beijing police recently announced a one-hundred-day campaign to curb the illegal entry, residence and employment of foreign nationals.
China will encourage its enterprises to discuss cooperation on upgrading Myanmar's power grid in order to help ease power shortages in the country, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said here Thursday.
China is "in consultation" with the United States on a visa issue affecting the Mandarin-teaching Confucius Institutes, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said.
Beijing police on Thursday said the recent crackdown on illegal foreign residents has not changed the city's friendly attitude toward foreigners.
The US government has found yet another reason to ignore its own problems and bash China.
A delegation of Tibet experts and scholars gathered at the Chinese Consulate in New York to exchange views on current social and economic developments in the Tibet autonomous region.