President Xi Jinping and his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolas Maduro, agreed to upgrade their countries' relations to a comprehensive strategic partnership.
China and Venezuela are celebrating 40 years of diplomatic ties and have signed more than 500 cooperation agreements over the past few years.
A stable power supply is a crucial strategic element for military border defense missions in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Huang Xiaoming, the deputy commander of the People's Liberation Army's Xinjiang military region, said on Monday.
Prosecutors have opened an investigation into five officials for suspected of bribery and embezzlement, said the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) Monday.
Legislative bodies of China and Argentina should enhance exchanges and mutual learning in an effort to promote bilateral ties, visiting President Xi Jinping said on Saturday in Argentina, the second leg of his South America trip.
Editor's note: To offer a clearer picture of history, the State Archives Administration released a large number of files on 45 Japanese war criminals who were tried and convicted in China after World War II. The special military tribunal of the Supreme People's Court held public trials, sentencing the criminals to between eight and 20 years in jail. China Daily is publishing abstracts of the criminals' confessions.
For COSCO Shipping, the world's largest fleet of specialized carriers and multipurpose vessels, a new leg in its pan-Latin America journey has begun.
Wu Changshun, a senior political advisor of Tianjin, is under investigation for suspected serious discipline and law violations.
Global rating agency Moody's said reform of China's six big state-owned enterprises is credit positive, calling it a prudent, yet concrete, step toward broader reform.
Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli urged acceleration of the opening-up of southeast China's Fujian province, the starting point of the historic Maritime Silk Road.
Senior leader Liu Yunshan has called for good implementation of the Party's "mass-line" campaign at the grassroots level.
Roughly 7.83 billion yuan ($1.25 billion) in public funds for China's affordable housing projects has been misused by local governments, according to the National Audit Office.