China's top prosecuting department investigated seven ministerial-level officials in the first five months of this year, an increase of 40 percent compared with the same period in 2013, according to the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Friday.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's upcoming visit to China will intensify cooperation in areas including urbanization, environmental protection and international affairs, German Ambassador to China Michael Clauss said in an interview ahead of the chancellor's three-day visit.
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman says the coast guard has detained a Vietnamese fishing vessel and six crew for illegal operations in the South China Sea.
Premier Li Keqiang asked workers to ensure the quality of Chinese high-speed railways and safeguard the reputation of made-in-China equipment on a visit Friday to a local electric locomotive manufacturer in Zhuzhou, Hunan province.
Premier Li Keqiang was presented with a short animated film about himself during a visit to an animation production company in Changsha, Hunan province.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) will complete its new plan for disciplinary inspection reform by 2017, establishing a practical and effective anti-graft system.
Five years after fatal violence left nearly 200 dead in the city of Urumqi, the concussion created by the watershed incident has not died down.
President Xi Jinping's two-day visit to South Korea has sparked media speculation that China will loan a pair of pandas to the country.
Vice Chairman of China's Central Military Commission Fan Changlong met with Indian Army Chief General Bikram Singh in Beijing on Thursday.
Local courts in Northwest China's Gansu province sentenced two officials to suspended death and life in prison for corruption on Thursday.
China and South Korea signed a deal Thursday to set up a renminbi (RMB) clearing service in Seoul, marrying future financial transactions between the two countries' central banks.
Premier Li Keqiang paid a visit to a construction site for a new high-speed railway line in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province on Thursday morning, and chatted with workers there.