China's maternal mortality dropped to 26.1 per 100,000 last year, down 51 percent from 2000.
Suspected food poisoning sickened more than 50 students in South China's Hainan province on Thursday, local authorities said.
Dozens of children living near a lead refinery plant in South China's Guangdong province have been diagnosed with excessive lead in their blood, a local government statement said.
Medical malpractice is suspected of having caused at least 200 reported cases of hepatitis C infection in a community in Guangdong province.
Chinese steel companies are rapidly catching up with their Japanese counterparts in manufacturing high-quality products.
Andreas Dress believes it won't be long before a person from China is awarded a Nobel Prize for science.
A senior health official of the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region denied on Thursday a real-name HIV testing policy - which is expected to begin soon in the region - will be compulsory.
A chief examiner has been suspended after more than 430 students were investigated for cheating in arts exams at the city's polytechnic.
China's stock investors are looking forward to positive signals from the forthcoming annual conferences of national legislators and political advisers.
The experience of investing in the stock market last year was depressing for Wei Xinrong, a 52-year-old restaurant co-owner who is taking a wait-and-see attitude this year.
Close shaves were the order of the day as people cut it fine and thousands of barbers across the country gave their customers hairy moments to remember.
China is accelerating its pace in exploring the North Pole with two Arctic expeditions planned before 2015.