Tsinghua University President Chen Jining was appointed Party chief of the Ministry of Environmental Protection. Chen is also a professor at the School of Environment at Tsinghua.
China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) opened its first branch in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen on Wednesday to save citizens time and money for traveling to Beijing.
Vice chairman of China's Central Military Commission Fan Changlong met with Michael Vickers, visiting US under secretary of defense for intelligence, on Wednesday, vowing to enhance their military ties.
China on Wednesday praised German leaders' acknowledgment of its past mistakes, namely the Holocaust.
China's State Council, the cabinet, on Wednesday announced plans to push exports of advanced railway, nuclear power and building material products.
Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will pay an official visit to China from Saturday to Tuesday, as a guest of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, China's Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday.
Beijing said on Wednesday that it believes both China and Greece were willing to promote cooperation, following reports saying the new Greek government will halt the sale of a majority stake in the country's biggest port.
Tibetan officials who are suspected of providing intelligence to the Dalai Lama's separatist forces are being probed.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang listened to opinions on education, science and technology, culture, health and sports, while presiding over a meeting on the government work report on Tuesday.
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Hua Chunying on Tuesday called a New York Times editorial, entitled "The plunder of Myanmar", a distortion of the facts.
Premier Li Keqiang on Jan 27 met with Sofyan Djalil, Indonesia's presidential envoy and coordinating minister for economy, who was in Beijing to attend the first meeting of the China-Indonesia High-Level Economic Dialogue.
A former minister of the Organization Department under the Hebei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China has been investigated for accepting bribes, according to the Supreme People's Prosecutorate.