The increase in China's military budget will be much lower than earlier speculations, which put the figure at more than 20 percent, said the spokeswoman for the annual session of the top legislature on Friday.
President Xi Jinping pledged to grant wider market access to the country's private sector during a panel discussion with political advisers on Friday.
Premier Li Keqiang is looking to the technology industry and emerging sectors as a leading factor to give impetus to the economy during its difficult transition.
Beijing has called on Pyongyang, Washington and Seoul to "be cautious" amid rising tension on the Korean Peninsula, after the official news agency of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea reported on Friday that the country's leader, Kim Jong-un, had said the military should be ready to deploy nuclear warheads at any time for national defense.
Talent agency Cube Entertainment Inc is poised to become the latest K-pop producer to link up with a Chinese partner, banking on the popularity of everything South Korean from makeup to music in the world's second-largest economy.
Women leaders add diversity to the political stage and make contributions to the country. As we prepare to mark this year's Women's Day next Tuesday, here's a list of China's six State-level women leaders. They not only excel in their work but are role models, too.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea fired six short-range projectiles into the sea on Thursday in a show of defiance hours after the United Nations issued the toughest sanctions in history against Pyongyang for its nuclear test.
China's top political advisory body vowed on Thursday to produce a series of "substantive" and "significant" investigation results and suggestions to push forward economic reform and efficiency this year.
A pair of giant pandas being loaned by China to the Republic of Korea for 15 years arrived in Seoul on Thursday.
China has established a State-owned conglomerate to develop aircraft engines, a move that experts say will extensively boost the country's aviation industry.
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