The top Chinese judge on Wednesday urged courts to have greater "political courage and wisdom" in promoting a new round of judicial reform.
Despite China facing challenges in providing people with high-quality medical care, the top health authority has vowed to ease patients' economic burdens.
Many provincial Party committees have created detailed policies to improve their working style, as required by the country's core leadership.
The deaths of a migrant worker and a vagrant in Central China's Henan province have prompted urgent and wide-ranging action by civil affairs officials.
China hopes Japan's new government will work with China to overcome difficulties in bilateral relations, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
The former head of the transportation bureau in Lanzhou, Gansu province, was sentenced to life imprisonment for taking more than 10 million yuan ($1.6 million) of bribes, Xinhua News Agency reported on Wednesday.
A total of 12 officials in Jiangxi province have been suspended from their posts after a van carrying 15 children plunged into a pond in Guixi city, killing 11 on Monday.
China has sent 38 police liaison officers to 23 countries, the Ministry of Public Security announced Tuesday.
Lawmakers have hailed a draft decision on strengthening protection for personal information online as a "timely and necessary" move.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said authorities will maintain the multi-party cooperation system and support non-communist political parties' roles in political supervision.
On the occasion of five weeks after the new central leadership elected at the first Plenary Session of the 18th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee took office, Xinhua News Agency opened the "Top CPC Leadership" special column. Over three consecutive days beginning Sunday, Xinhua will broadcast profiles and related photos of the seven members of the Standing Committee of the 18th CPC Central Committee Political Bureau.
When Zhang Gaoli was born into an impoverished peasant's family 66 years ago, no one might have imagined that he would become one of China's most powerful people.