Ministries respond to issues

Several ministry-level departments, including those for finance, market regulation, and housing and urban-rural development, have responded recently to issues of public concern.

China will improve the supply chain of agricultural products in a bid to increase farmers' income, the Ministry of Finance said in a statement on May 14.

The central government will allocate a two-year fund of 200 million yuan ($28.9 million) to each provincial-level region that gets its respective plan approved, the ministry said.