A cultural development plan aims to include a goal of doubling the added value of the culture industry by 2015.
China will also time it to minimize impacts on consumer prices, the country's price regulator said.
China's top political advisor Jia Qinglin on Tuesday vowed to carry out democracy and improve the quality of political advice.
The Chinese government invests big in water pollution control, pushing to commercialize most technologies, a top environment regulator said Tuesday.
The 11th group of Chinese navy escort ships left a port in Qingdao, a city in East China's Shandong province, on Tuesday for an escort mission on the Gulf of Aden and Somali waters.
A record 292,611 students from 194 countries and regions studied in China in 2011, up 10.38 percent from the previous year, figures from the Ministry of Education show.
Construction on a Confucius museum recently began in East China's Shandong province, local authorities said Tuesday.
China on Tuesday expressed the hope that the Republic of Korea (ROK) will handle, in a calm manner, illegal border crossing to China by nationals from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
About 400 higher education institutes from more than 30 countries and regions will attend the 17th China International Education Exhibition Tour to attract Chinese students.
Chinese businesses will face growing risks in short-term export trade credit in the first quarter of 2012.
Anti-domestic violence law is on the legislative agenda of the National People's Congress (NPC) in 2012.
An organization representing handicapped writers in northwest China's Shaanxi Province was set up on Tuesday.