Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli met with President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Takehiko Nakao on Tuesday in Beijing and exchanged views on cooperation between China and the ADB.
The political advisory body of Beijing will open its annual session next week, authorities said.
Twenty percent of government cars in the Guangdong provincial capital were kept off the roads and streets due to heavy smog on Tuesday, Guangzhou-based Southern Metropolis Daily reported.
China called on Monday for an immediate cease-fire in South Sudan and urged the two sides to start peace talks.
Officials from the Qingdao city government in Shandong province appeared live on local television on Sunday to present summaries of their performance over the past year.
China spoke highly of Cyprus's assistance to a Chinese frigate that will help escort Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons out of the country.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed science and technology innovation to support productivity and national strength.
China and India should further deepen mutual trust and expand mutually beneficial and pragmatic partnership, said the Chinese envoy to India on Monday.
China's procuratorial authorities investigated 27,236 embezzlement and bribery cases between January and November last year, sentencing 36,907 people, the Supreme People's Procuratorate said in a statement on Sunday
More efforts are needed to rectify officials' work styles amid the ongoing "mass-line" campaign, a senior Communist Party of China (CPC) official said on Sunday.
Spending by China's disciplinary and supervisory organs significantly dropped in 2013 as the country's anti-extravagance drive continued.
China's procuratorial organs investigated 36,907 officials suspected of corruption from January to November in 2013, the country's Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) said on Sunday.