A court in Shanghai will try the case of Han Han, one of China's most famous young writers, suing an anti-fraud activist who accused him of using ghost-writers.
With social media becoming more common in China, micro blogs have become the greatest source of scandals that damage companies' reputations.
Chinese authorities punished a total of nearly 290 people in more than 5,200 food safety cases in 2011, according to new figures.
China is willing to increase imports from Canada and to boost cooperation in energy and other areas, Chinese leaders said on Thursday.
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping's upcoming trip to the United States is aimed at building a cooperative partnership between the two nations.
China's maritime authorities have confined a foreign ship as they investigate a chemical spill that contaminated the drinking water source of a city downstream the Yangtze River.
China hopes to lure more private investment into its mining industry through a new system of publishing prospecting information for review by potential investors, according to the country's land authority.
China's vice public security minister on Thursday called on the nation's police to go all out in a campaign to crack down on economic crimes.
More than 20 Chinese and Canadian companies on Thursday signed cooperative deals of about $3 billion on the sidelines of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's China visit.
China has maintained communication with relevant parties, including opposition forces, in regard to the current turmoil in Syria, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
President Hu Jintao and visiting Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper agreed to further facilitate the bilateral strategic partnership and promote greater progress of cooperation in diversified areas.
The Import-Export Bank of China and Canada-based Canaccord Financial Inc announced on Thursday to establish a $1 billion fund focusing on investing in Canadian natural resource sector.