The test-oriented educational system is the cause of many suicides among elementary and middle school students in China, an education report said on Tuesday.
The Ministry of Environmental Protection has drafted definitions for the conditions that qualify a day as having haze pollution.
A huge tent was put up over the former site of an insecticide factory in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, to contain a peculiar smell emanating from polluted soil, local news website zjol.com.cn reported.
With robust annual sales growth of nearly 30 percent, China's environmental protection industry products may reach 570 billion yuan ($91.3 billion) in total value by 2015, according to an official report released on Tuesday.
The number of young offenders in Beijing who were exempted from prosecution has been increasing in recent years as part of an effort to guide juveniles into productive life patterns.
Beijing prosecutors and judicial professionals have urged authorities to speed up the sealing of young offenders' criminal records to allow them a better chance to succeed in life.
Shanghai police have arrested two men, including a British national, for allegedly shipping 30 million yuan ($4.8 million) in counterfeit goods produced in China to Britain and selling them illegally.
Local government sources said on Tuesday that an arson suspect in a bus fire died in the incident on Monday in Yibin, Sichuan province.
The central government released a string of measures on Tuesday supporting student entrepreneurs and startup businesses as the country's college graduates face another tough year in the job market.
A worker who picked up a piece of radioactive iridium-192 metal and kept it for more than three hours in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, on Wednesday has been transferred to Suzhou to receive treatment.
Some obstetric medical workers in Beijing said they have seen an obvious increase of workload this year, and they partly attribute it to the traditional Chinese zodiac.
Zhang Cuiqiong, who has been a midwife for more than 20 years, is gearing up for the busiest year ever, as China's relaxation of its one-child policy will aggravate an already severe midwife shortage.
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