Efforts will be intensified to accelerate the country's agricultural modernization and enhance developmental vitality in the sector.
Increasing the senior high school admission rate in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region has been listed as a priority for the region's development during the next five years, regional authorities said during this year's local sessions.
The disciplinary watchdog in Chongqing has promised a thorough investigation into the sex-tape scandal that led to the dismissal of 11 local officials.
Improving people's livelihoods, especially those in rural areas, will be a major task for the newly elected provincial government, said Zhu Xiaodan, governor of Guangdong.
Gong Aiai, 49, a former deputy chief of Shenmu Rural Commercial Bank in Yulin, Shaanxi province, owned 41 houses with a total area of 9,666.6 square meters, the Beijing Public Security Bureau said Thursday.
Vice-Premier Li Keqiang called for more trust between China and the United States while meeting a visiting US congressional delegation on Thursday.
The Chinese public have been advised to set off fewer firecrackers or none at all during the Spring Festival to help prevent smog, the country's Environment Minister Zhou Shengxian said Thursday.
Bater was re-elected chairman of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Thursday at the first session of the 12th regional People's Congress, the local legislature.
China and Mongolia should further expand cooperation in investment and trade and launch several big projects as soon as possible, a senior Chinese leader proposed on Thursday.
Huang Qifan was re-elected mayor of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on Thursday at the first session of the fourth municipal People's Congress, the local legislature.
China has reiterated its opposition to the Philippines' request of taking South China Sea disputes to a UN tribunal, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday.
The Chinese authorities on Thursday issued its first policy document for 2013, underlining the importance of accelerating modern agricultural industry and rural areas' development.
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