Top political advisor Jia Qinglin said Wednesday that China and Japan should resolve the Diaoyu Islands dispute through dialogue and consultation.
Chinese President Hu Jintao has appointed a new ambassador to India, according to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) on Wednesday.
After knocking on three doors at a building in an affordable housing community and getting no response, a senior Chinese leader found himself outside during the coldest month of the year in Northwest China's Shaanxi province.
Shanghai has issued a detailed plan to improve the work style of the Party and the government.
The State Council, or the central government, has approved a plan on infrastructure construction for major science and technology projects for the next two decades.
A senior Party official from Shanwei city in the eastern part of Guangdong province has been expelled from the Party and dismissed from public office for serious violations of Party discipline and suspected acceptance of large sums of bribes.
Four Chinese workers, who were abducted on January 12 in Sudan's Darfur region, have been released, Chinese embassy confirmed on Wednesday.
Tougher measures preventing local government workers and Communist Party of China (CPC) members from having additional births abroad have been rolled out by Guangdong province.
China is on high alert for Japan escalating tensions over the Diaoyu Islands.
In a Buddhist temple a man asked the abbot if he would lend the local government a dozen orphans ahead of an inspection. The abbot refused the request.
A Chinese mainland spokesman on Wednesday reaffirmed the country's opposition to arms sales by the United States to Taiwan and urged the superpower to adhere to the one-China policy.
Chinese police have pledged to reduce lavish banquets, overseas visits, meetings and talks as part of a new austerity drive to fight formalism and bureaucratism.