A Chinese customer downloaded the 25 billionth app from Apple's App Store, pushing the mobile software store to a new milestone.
Officials are calling for measures to cope with the rapid growth of the country's elderly population.
China failed to attain its planned targets for slashing energy consumption and carbon emissions in 2011.
Shanghai is seeking more effective ways to prevent smoking in Internet bars and other entertainment venues.
China will further advance its reform and opening-up policy this year by encouraging companies to go abroad. Growth target cut
Education spending raised
Official takes blame for inflation
The central government has decided in its budget that government spending on education will account for 4 percent of the country's GDP this year.
The economic growth target could be lowered further in the coming years after it was set at 7.5 percent for this year.
Lines of senior citizens waited in the rain over the past two mornings on Shanghai's Nanjing Road for the army to arrive and provide free services.
China's top procuratorial body recently called on procurators across the nation to learn from the example of a procurator in Tibet autonomous region.
China should set up a coast guard to cope with the "increasingly challenging" maritime disputes with neighboring countries.
Three geological technicians have been missing for 15 days and an unmanned aircraft is about to become involved in the search effort.
Asia's largest household refuse incineration plant, which is under construction in Beijing, will become operational in Oct.