The move is expected to make more opportunities accessible to foreigners eligible to work at research institutions, colleges and universities.
Seven bureau-level officials in Shanghai were investigated for embezzlement and bribery in 2015, a record for the city, an anti-graft watchdog announced on Tuesday.
The top anti-graft body announced on Tuesday that the deputy head of the Chinese mainland's Taiwan affairs authority has been placed under investigation.
Investigations found Ai Baojun seriously violated the Party's political discipline, cheating the Party organization and confronting the investigation.
Two senior government officials accused of bribery, trading power for sex and other improper behavior have been expelled from the Communist Party of China and removed from their posts.
China has more citizens living outside the country than any other nation in the world.
Defined as "the key year of comprehensively deepening reforms," 2015 saw a series of milestones achieved by China.
Ju Xiaolin, a technical migrant worker, was voted in as vice chair of China's trade union federation on Sunday.
A lecturer at Xidian University in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, has called on students in her female-only class to sign a pledge that they will not have sex before marriage.
Lyu Xiwen, a former Beijing deputy Party chief, has been placed "under coercive measures", a term that usually means detention, and is the subject of a bribery investigation, the Supreme People's Procuratorate said on Monday.
China's Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) Monday refuted a Reuters' report that Chairman Xiao Gang has offered to resign.
Shen Weichen, former Party secretary and executive vice president of the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), stood trial on Monday on charges of taking bribes, according to a statement from a court in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province.