People are skeptical of rules to punish restaurants for wasting food as Zhuhai and Beijing released regulations this week.
A recent attempt made to relieve crowding on subway cars in Beijing is "impractical and unrealistic", according to experts.
Nearly 5.8 billion yuan ($948 million) was embezzled last year from State funds for affordable housing, involving 360 projects and organizations, China's top auditing authority said on Friday.
A botanist is urging the public not to use information released for better protection of endangered plants as a guide for their personal gain.
Beijing became a member city of the IML Walking Association this year, which will host an international hiking event in the city's Mentougou district on Sept 14 and 15.
Police in Northwest China's Shaanxi province have rescued two twin newborn baby girls who were allegedly sold to human traffickers by a doctor.
Around 150 Chinese drugstores in Chengdu announced on Thursday that they would stop selling products containing bear bile powder, giving a boost to animal rights activists in China's long-running debate over the extraction of bile from live bears.
A government study reaffirmed the existence of "cancer villages" along a major river, the latest sign of fast economic growth seriously harming the environment.
Experts said more details of the clauses on environmental information are needed after the Beijing government made public a draft regulation on government information disclosure on Tuesday.
A suspected baby trafficking case in Fuping county, Shaanxi province, continues to develop as more couples claim they were duped into giving up their newborn babies.
A foreigner who stayed illegally in Shanghai for 33 days has been fined 10,000 yuan ($1,600), the largest fine issued in the city and the maximum allowed since the Exit-Entry Administration Law took effect.
Children in the Gusu district of Suzhou, in East China's Jiangsu province, carve cartoon figures and animals on watermelons in a communicty activity on Tuesday.