Peng Liyuan accompanied her husband, President Xi Jinping, for a two-day visit to South Korea. Escorted by Cho Yoon-sun, South Korea's presidential secretary for political affairs, the first lady visited sites of national significance, including palaces in Seoul, and enjoyed various traditional cultural activities.
China welcomes South Korea's participation in the establishment of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, President Xi Jinping said in Seoul on Friday.
While President Xi Jinping and his Republic of Korea host Park Geun-hye exchanged laughter and oversaw the signing of a number of deals to cement relations, the bilateral meeting was really a conference of five protagonists, with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Japan and the United States watching closely from afar.
A South Korean civic group purchased a half-page advertisement that appeared in Friday's China Youth Daily that called for renaming the Sea of Japan as the "East Sea".
South Korean President Park Geun-hye chose a red suit, the iconic color of China, for President Xi Jinping's welcoming ceremony. During the following summit meeting, Park talked with Xi in fluent Mandarin, as if talking to an old friend she had not seen for a long time. The red suit may have hinted at a likely breakthrough over negotiations on the free trade agreement between the two countries.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's upcoming visit to China will intensify cooperation in areas including urbanization, environmental protection and international affairs, German Ambassador to China Michael Clauss said in an interview ahead of the chancellor's three-day visit.
China's top prosecuting department investigated seven ministerial-level officials in the first five months of this year, an increase of 40 percent compared with the same period in 2013, according to the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Friday.
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The Ministry of Education is tightening up a preferential policy that awards bonus points in the national college entrance exams, or gaokao, to students with exceptional ability in the sciences and sports, amid recent worries about abuse of the system.
The Ministry of Education is banning universities from recruiting students based on gender.
Police in Dalian, Liaoning province, have detained five people they say are responsible for damage to a crude-oil pipeline that triggered a massive oil leak and fire on Monday night.
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