Development during the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20) should uphold the five principles of innovation, coordination, green development, opening-up and sharing, according to Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli.
Premier Li Keqiang delivered a speech at China's top political advisory agency on Nov 6, during which he did not refer to a script prepared earlier.
The hands of top leaders across the Taiwan Straits traveled more than six decades to reach a minutelong grip on Saturday, setting the stage for deeper integration based on the one-China principle.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Friday encouraged political advisors to pool wisdom and suggestions while the country maps a new five-year plan.
China's Vice-Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao said on Friday that it is worth discussing whether the fiscal deficit ratio should be fixed below the ceiling of 3 percent, indicating the possibility of a more proactive fiscal policy in 2016.
China's securities regulator said on Friday that it will resume initial public offerings by companies after halting the fundraising mechanism since July to stem the dramatic market slide during the summer.
China is studying policies to help "zombie" companies withdraw from business in order to improve the efficiency of State-owned and private enterprises.
The names of five officials and judicial personnel were made public on Friday as they had interfered in judicial cases.
Jail sentences were given to 197 officials at grassroots levels who were involved in 175 corruption cases over the past five years, prosecutors in Shanghai said on Thursday.
China is willing to deepen pragmatic cooperation with Liberia and help it to develop and reduce poverty, Premier Li Keqiang said when meeting with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Beijing on Thursday.
China plans to build 20 new major water conservation projects in 2016 amid efforts to boost investment and stabilize growth.
A State Council meeting presided over by Premier Li Keqiang decides to speed up the restructuring of loss-making State-owned enterprises.