Mobile devices have become a key target for hackers, as the amount of malicious software, or malware, on the devices has soared since last year, a new report says.
The central government has urged officials nationwide to listen to and respect public opinion in an ongoing campaign to improve the Party's ties with the people.
In a controversial move, the Ministry of Education has banned written assignments for first and second-grade primary school students across China this summer vacation.
"I support this. It's not necessary to give students in grades one and two homework, because their workload is not big, and we could cultivate other interests, or let them take part in social activities. Besides, there's no need for them to attend cram school."
The Beijing education authority's directive that school students exercise for an hour each day during the coming summer vacation to ensure good health may fail to have much effect, despite a 20 percent obesity rate among the city's school children.
After a week's cleaning efforts, the biggest algae outbreak since 2008 in the coastal waters near Qingdao, Shandong province, is under control, with tourists and locals swarming to the beach once more.
The 3,300 year-old-city of Xi'an is perched on the tip of China's loess highlands. Its surrounding yellow earth was the source material for the city's world-famous terracotta soldiers, an army of statues built in 200BC to guard China's first emperor in the afterlife.
After five years of development, the Xi'an International Trade and Logistics Park is shaping into a center for high-end service enterprises, local leaders say.
The ChinaSourcing Summit that opens on Wednesday in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province has drawn about 200 buyers seeking service providers, roughly three fours of them from abroad.
With the goal of becoming a grand gathering of the IT service outsourcing industry in Asia, ChinaSourcing Summit has been successfully held for four years.
The momentum of growth in China's service sourcing has been strong in 2013, according to the Ministry of Commerce.
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