Law Chi-kwong says poverty in Hong Kong is growing worse, underscoring the need to re-establish the Commission on Poverty, of which he now sits as a member.
Premier Li Keqiang told new graduates to be enterprising and innovative in hunting for jobs in what some say is the toughest time for them to find work in recent years.
A stage set for big innovation
China's increasing research and development spending is strengthening its ability to compete with the United States in the global marketplace, says the director general of the World Intellectual Property Organization, or WIPO, a United Nations agency.
To maintain its role as a major economic center in western China, Chengdu will need to further deepen its high-tech industrial development, said economists and experts on Thursday during the 2013 Fortune Global Forum.
Chinese netizens have been fawning over a giant inflatable duck created by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman that sailed into Hong Kong on May 2.
China issued a circular on Wednesday calling for improvements to the country's capacity to independently innovate.
The Second China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition was launched in Beijing on Friday, and registration will be open through mid-July.
Premier Li Keqiang visited the Einstein Museum in Bern on Saturday morning and cheerfully mingled with some enthusiastic Swiss youths. He told them that innovation was important, as was hard work and regular exchanges between East and West.
The concept of the "smart city" is not entirely new to China. But its close relatives such as the "digital city", "low-carbon city", or "green city" cover only a part of the larger concept.
China's best-known annual high-tech fair aims to boost industrial innovation and serve as a driving force to improve the quality and efficiency of economic growth as the nation's economy slows down, officials said on Sunday.
China should try to take advantage of globalization to facilitate its struggling transformation into an innovation-driven economy.