Editor's Note: This is an excerpt of the special address by Premier Li Keqiang at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2015.
National prosecuting departments investigated 24 high-ranking officials from January to November last year, including former security chief Zhou Yongkang and former vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission Xu Caihou, for alleged graft, according to the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Thursday.
Six police officers at Nehe Prison in Heilongjiang province were removed from their posts or received warnings after an investigation into an inmate who swindled money from women he video-chatted with using a cellphone, local news portal dbw.cn reported on Thursday.
China will likely see more sporadic cases of infection by the H7N9 avian flu during its high season, which runs through winter to spring, but the chances of a mass outbreak remain quite slim, said a top expert.
Editor's Note: Provincial regions and cities in China are holding their annual conferences of lawmakers and political advisers. To inform our readers of the latest changes in various parts of the country, China Daily is reporting about some of these conferences.
International students receiving scholarships from the Chinese government will see an increase in their financial support.
Support services for foreigners, including ticket sales and ID checks, need to be upgraded to match China's rising status on the world stage, said Yang Hao, a professor in rail transportation management at Beijing Jiaotong University.
Yang Jingwen, a migrant worker in Beijing, is considering returning to her hometown of Xinyang, in Henan province, for Spring Festival by bus instead of train after she failed to book a rail ticket.
The launch in December of high-speed rail lines linking Guangzhou with Nanning and Guiyang should make it easier for millions of migrant workers to travel home to Southwest China during Spring Festival this year.
Fu Xiuqin struggles to find sawdust and cypress twigs in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, so that she can smoke bacon in the runup to Spring Festival.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying urged non-parties on Thursday to stick to an objective and impartial stance over the South China Sea issue.
The annual central conference on political and legal work expressed the authority's determination on Wednesday to clean up the negative influence on the legal system from corrupt former security head Zhou Yongkang.
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