One person has died and another 40 have been injured in a collision involving 22 vehicles in Southwest China's Guizhou province on Friday morning, according to local traffic police.
China's Health Ministry has pledged to improve its supervision measures to keep the country's food safe from contamination.
A full-page ad opposing pregnant women from the Chinese mainland giving birth in Hong Kong was published by a local newspaper on Feb 1, triggering a hot debate online.
President Hu Jintao said that China was ready to push forward its long-term, healthy and in-depth development of strategic partnership with Germany.
A judge set up the organization seven years ago to help juveniles when they are released from custody.
Facebook's planned IPO is likely to give impetus to China's social networking service (SNS) and boost its development, industry insiders say.
China will keep its water conservation policies consistent and stable this year to bring benefits to farmers, a senior official said Thursday.
China on Thursday called upon the international community to make greater anti-poverty efforts.
Cleanup procedures brought the cadmium concentration peak down from 80 times the official limit to 20 times the limit Thursday.
Although forecasts for China's growth rate vary, economists agree that the world's second-largest economy will achieve a soft landing in 2012.
There may be as many as 16 million women on the Chinese mainland who are married to homosexual men, a leading expert has estimated.
More than 8,324 Chinese suffered food poisoning in 2011, and 137 of them died, said the Ministry of Health.