China will work harder to use simpler, more straightforward procedures and balanced market regulation to streamline government administration.
Six out of 10 people are satisfied with China's anti-graft efforts in 2016, according to a poll by the top State-run think tank.
Huang Xingguo, former mayor of Tianjin, has been expelled from the Communist Party of China and dismissed from public office.
Experts predict that this will be the year the nation gains greater influence in world affairs. An Baijie reports.
Chinese prosecutors have filed cases against four local officials on suspicion of taking bribes, the Supreme People's Procuratorate said Wednesday.
A special envoy of the Chinese government on the Syrian issue will travel to Geneva, the European Union, Turkey and Russia in efforts to work on a political solution to the Syrian crisis.
China Coast Guard vessels on Wednesday conducted a patrol in territorial waters of the Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea, according to a State Oceanic Administration statement.
The top political adviser in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, has vowed to play an active role in united front work this year.
Two leading officials in the southwestern Chinese city of Panzhihua, Sichuan province, were injured in a shooting incident on Wednesday morning, local authorities said.
The year 2016 was eventful both to China and other countries. In addition to growing regional conflicts and incessant terrorist attacks, the presidential election of the United States, the exit of Great Britain from the EU, disputes over South Chinese Sea islands between China and the Philippines and the deployment of US Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system in South Korea have all added to the uncertainty of international politics and world order and posed great challenges to China's diplomatic work.
Huang Xingguo, former acting Party chief and mayor of Tianjin Municipality, has been expelled from the Communist Party of China (CPC) and dismissed from the public office, the Party discipline agency said Wednesday.
Vice Premier Liu Yandong stressed that community health care institutions and family doctors are the first-line guardians of people's health during an inspection visit on Tuesday.