Anti-graft authorities investigated more than 60,000 cases in the first five months of this year, nearly 35 percent more than in the same period last year, according to an official from the top anti-graft watchdog.
Muslim extremists from the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region have gone to the Middle East for training and some may have crossed into Iraq to take part in the upsurge of violence there, China's special envoy for the Middle East, Wu Sike, said on Monday.
Delays in issuing visas for the United States are likely to persist as the computer problems causing them have not yet been resolved, Nolan Barkhouse, spokesman for the US embassy in Beijing, said on Monday.
Between 40 and 50 families from the United States have been stranded in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, after the worldwide computer breakdown in the US State Department's visa and passport record-keeping database.
Claims that genetically modified rice that has not been approved for sale in China is being supplied illegally in a number of provinces have triggered alarm.
Police in Chengdu arrested 1,150 suspects allegedly involved in seven pyramid-selling groups during a five-day crackdown, People's Daily reported on Sunday. From July 14 to 18, police searched key areas. A total of 319 bases were found, the Chengdu Public Security Bureau said. A pyramid scam is an illegal business model in which people are enrolled in a scheme by being promised payments.
"China's grain stock capacity has surged to 100 times that of 1949. In 2013, the country had about 19,000 grain storage companies with total capacity of over 300 million tons. We have built a national grain storage network based on four logistics hubs in Liaoning, Guangdong, Shanghai and Zhejiang, with granaries all around the country."
Editor's note: To offer a clearer picture of history, the State Archives Administration released a large number of files on 45 Japanese war criminals who were tried and convicted in China after World War II. The special military tribunal of the Supreme People's Court held public trials, sentencing the criminals to eight-to-20 years prison term. China Daily is publishing abstracts of the criminals' confessions:
More business schools in China are tapping experience from the West and elsewhere to meet the country's growing demand for business elites.
Justin Wai-Wah Man was born in the United States, but his Chinese heritage is playing a big part in shaping his plans. He will return to school in September at Peking University, one of China's most prestigious schools.
Education experts are calling for a calm and objective view of the good performance by Shanghai students in the international financial literacy assessment.
The popularity of TV programs that highlight the enduring appeal of Chinese characters will rekindle interest in traditional culture, specialists and media experts believe.
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