When eating and sleeping in grassroots household, Zhou Benshun and his colleagues were reminded of the days when they walked or rode a bicycle to inspect villages and sat together with locals in a long wooden chair to chat.
China adopts "a cautious and responsible attitude" toward the trade of small arms and light weapons, and is ready to work with the international community to promote a proper solution to the issue of illegitimate trade of such weapons.
Learning from moral models and spreading positive energy is a way to reshape social morality and realize the Chinese dream, President Xi Jinping said.
China urged regional countries not to act recklessly with the support of parties outside the region, referring to recent joint exercises between the United States and the Philippines near the South China Sea.
Hawkish Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made an indirect reference to China in an effort to justify his country's rising defense budget in New York.
China and Laos promised closer coordination on ASEAN and international affairs, as the president of the Southeast Asian country began a five-day visit to China on Thursday.
ASEAN relations focused on cooperation
The inspection teams dispatched by the country's top anti-corruption agency claim to have found lots of problems existing in the government bodies.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has appointed five new ambassadors in accordance with a decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature.
China on Thursday said the training by its military vessels and jets in the west Pacific is routine.
China wants the United Nations Security Council to reach consensus on a draft resolution on Syria's chemical weapons at an early date, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said on Thursday.
China and India will hold a two-day meeting in Beijing to discuss border affairs, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei on Thursday urged Japan's leaders to face up to history and win the trust of the international community with concrete action.