Four ministries have vowed to accelerate reforms to promote listed companies to merge and regroup, and encouraged them to distribute dividends in cash and buy back their own shares.
One year ago, Jack Ma, the founder and chairman of Alibaba Group, decided to buy a 50-percent stake in the Chinese Super League soccer club Guangzhou Evergrande for 1.2 billion yuan ($191 million).
A complete high-speed railway circle is to start operation in Hainan province by the end of this year to further promote tourism of the island.
More than 300 kindergartens, primary and middle schools in Tianjin Binhai New Area, including 16 affected by the huge blasts on Aug 12, began the new semester on Monday.
As China celebrates the 70th anniversary of victory over Japan, tributes are being paid to an idealistic young foreigner who helped to save 20,000 people in the face of one of the worst atrocities committed during eight years of brutal occupation. Wang Xin and Cang Wei report from Nanjing.
Although he has retired, Dai Yuanzhi is never idle. The 64-year-old former China Youth Daily journalist has devoted more than 10 years to researching the history of Nanjing's biggest refugee camp,which housed more than 20,000 Chinese civilians during the 1937massacre in the city.
As the youngest staff member at the Forced Laborers Memorial Hall in Northeast China's Jilin province, Pan Sijie is a keeper of the remains.
A young woman from Xichang, Sichuan province, received prize money of nearly 9.6 million yuan ($1.5 million) from the Sichuan Sports Lottery Center in Chengdu.
As China fought for its life during the Japanese occupation and World War II, Ye Junjian, a Chinese professor of English literature, joined the fray, but his battleground was Europe, not China, and his weapon was the spoken word, not the gun.
During his four years at Cambridge, Ye Junjian developed an extensive network of relationships with the top British intellectuals of the day, including economist John Maynard Keynes and the writers Leonard Woolf and Stephen Spender.
Ye Junjian wasn't the only wartime Chinese scholar in the UK with a connection to Cambridge University.
Southeast Asian countries are seeking more cooperation with Chinese universities, but challenges remain, as China Daily reporters find out in Guiyang, Guizhou province.
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