Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has promised more initiatives to prevent and treat AIDS in order to limit its spread.
Inspectors from the Ministry of Environmental Protection have named and shamed violators of dust-control regulations in Beijing, as hazardous smog shrouds the capital.
China is facing fierce competition with powerful rivals such as the United States and Russia in the development of next-generation missile systems, according to a recent report.
When seeking a variety of government services, residents will no longer be required to produce extraneous documents to prove certain obvious facts or to call for redundant identification.
China released documents on Monday on electricity sector reforms covering everything from pricing to setting up a national electricity futures market.
Judges must change the way they handle environmental disputes, modernize their skill sets and stop favoring businesses over damaged ecology.
China's top leadership on Saturday pledged resolute measures to help the remaining 70 million poor people shake off poverty and enjoy essential social services by 2020.
China has achieved the pollution reduction targets for major pollutants outlined in its 12th Five-Year Plan, six months ahead of schedule, said Chen Jining, minister of environmental protection.
Climbers will have to seek approval for scaling mountains more than 3,500 meters above sea level in Sichuan province, according to a new regulation on mountaineering that will take effect on Jan 1.
The heavily polluted cluster of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei kicked off its joint supervision on Friday with regular meetings and frequent inspections, a mechanism expected to reduce the region's smog, especially from vehicle exhaust.
The former deputy head of the provincial environmental watchdog in Hebei has been charged with taking bribes along with another 10 officials, amid a tide of senior officials in environment authorities being accused of corruption since 2014.
The central government opened a meeting on Friday morning to discuss how it can lift 70 million people out of poverty by the end of 2020.