Party chief Xi Jinping expressed confidence in maintaining and boosting cross-Straits ties during a meeting on Monday with a Taiwan delegation led by Lien Chan, honorary chairman of the Kuomintang.
In a perfect demand and supply arrangement, energy-rich Russia agreed to provide an annual supply of 38 billion cubic meters of natural gas to energy-thirsty China.
Environmental issues are expected to be hot topics at the upcoming two sessions, say representatives who are busy preparing proposals.
China has improved the way it deals with corruption and is increasingly using technology to combat graft, but experts say preventing the technology from being abused must also be taken into consideration.
Chinese State Councilor Liu Yandong met with South Korea's newly sworn-in President Park Geun-hye on Monday and both sides pledged to further their bilateral cooperation.
Chinese State Councilor Liu Yandong met US National Security Adviser Tom Donilon in Seoul on Monday and both sides called for further development of bilateral relations.
Judicial organs need to improve their transparency in order to boost public trust, according to a report released by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences on Monday.
A Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Monday that the Chinese government is worried about recent negative developments in cyber security.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, on Monday stressed the CPC's duty to carry forward the peaceful development of mainland-Taiwan relations.
All Japanese activities regarding the Diaoyu Islands are "illegal and invalid", a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Monday.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping expressed his hope that compatriots from both sides of the Taiwan Straits can cooperate in realizing the "Chinese dream."