Wan Qingliang, former Party chief of Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, cried and pleaded guilty to charges of accepting bribes and neglect of duty on Friday.
Chinese legislators on Friday called for improvements to the nation's 13,000 public hospitals, focus of an overhaul of the national health system that began in 2009.
Chinese lawmakers on Friday called on authorities to allow more social investment in care for the elderly.
The Tibetan-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Aba, Sichuan Province, announced Friday that Barkam County, the prefecture's seat, would be reclassified as a city.
China on Friday pledged to make rural areas and agriculture a priority for government fiscal support as the country strives to develop the rural economy and lift the remaining poor out of poverty.
Two senior officials from South China's Guangdong province have been punished for accepting bribes, the local discipline authority said Friday.
China and Nepal on Friday agreed to speed up post-earthquake reconstruction projects, and enhance cooperation in trade, connectivity, gas and energy.
President Xi Jinping wished the People's Liberation Army (PLA) a happy New Year via the PLA Daily's Sina Weibo account during his inspection of the newspaper.
China shut down 17,000 polluting enterprises following a pollution discharge inspection of 1.41 million companies from January to September this year, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said on Friday.
China renewed its commitment to safeguard food security in a statement released Friday following a two-day Central Rural Work Conference.
An economic fugitive surnamed Xie returned a total of 20 million yuan ($3.1 million) worth of the bribe money he had taken after he surrendered himself to police on Thursday.
Former Guangzhou Party chief Wan Qingliang went on trial at a court in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Friday.
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