Anti-smoking advocacy group ThinkTank has urged Chinese government officials to set an example in tobacco control.
China detected an increasing number of online scams taking advantage of the e-commerce boom to swindle netizens.
A quarter of China's government ministries and 31 percent of provincial-level governments have developed software applications that run on smartphones or other mobile devices, according to figures released by a ministry research institute on Thursday.
The number of Internet users in China had hit 604 million as of the end of September this year, with mobile phones becoming the favored means of accessing the web, the State Internet Information Office announced on Thursday.
China's State Bureau for Letters and Calls (SBLC) said that it had received a total of 6.04 million complaint letters and calls in the first ten months of 2013, with complaints filed above the county level dropping by 2.1 percent year on year.
Wild Siberian tigers and Amur leopards have gained a marked population increase in the forests of northeast China's Jilin Province, authorities said on Tuesday.
Nearly 25 percent of Chinese women have suffered domestic violence in their marriage, an official in charge of women's affairs said on Tuesday.
Chinese officials are not to exchange gifts such as fireworks and firecrackers bought with public funds, during the New Year and Spring Festival holidays.
The All China Lawyers Association on Wednesday established a committee to supervise lawyers' conduct and vowed to punish those who break laws.
Disciplinary watchdogs at different levels have opened nearly 1,000 micro blog accounts as the anti-graft agency seeks to make its voice heard through new media.
The Chinese government will increase financial support for teachers in rural and impoverished areas to attract talent into underdeveloped rural education.
A male model who went online to find a wife has been outed by netizens, as the photos he used to depict himself in his post appear to have been doctored.