China is on target to achieve the United Nations' Millennium Development Goal 5, to reduce maternal deaths by three-quarters by 2015, according to the World Health Organization's director-general Margaret Chan.
China's land watchdog has vowed to tighten its control of land use in the building of new towns and cities because many just-completed projects across the nation have lain empty in recent years.
Editor-in-chief and general manager work at group linked to extortion allegations
During the process of rapid urbanization in China, many cities have seen scenic features lost to swaths of concrete, steel and glass. But Zhao Leqin, the Party chief of Guilin, is determined that his city will follow a different course and retain the attraction of its natural scenery.
The Uygur teacher convicted of separatism had urged his students to fight the Chinese government by any means and manipulated opinion polls to preach the independence of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, according to detailed court records obtained by Xinhua on Wednesday.
More than 100,000 "phantom employees" of provincial governments have been cleaned out of civil servant teams in Hebei, Sichuan, Henan and Jilin provinces since a national campaign was launched last year, requiring stricter measures to keep government teams clean and efficient, experts said.
China needs to build a world-class "white-hat hacker" team to protect Internet security, according to Zhou Hongyi, chief executive of Qihoo 360 Technology Co.
Chinese enterprises should improve their independent study of core technologies to push the country's informatization to a higher level and guarantee State security, officials and specialists said on Wednesday.
Two books on Confucianism have gained popularity among scholars and ordinary readers alike after President Xi Jinping said he would read them.
The People's Liberation Army has geared up its fight against corruption and abuse of power, requesting that officers hand in any houses or cars they are using in violation of regulations.
More officials in Henan province are facing investigation for alleged corruption after a top official came under suspicion.
Specialists in law and public administration are calling for clear procedures for handling the online exposure of corruption by officials, as more people are beginning to provide tips through the Internet.
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