An amendment to China's Water Pollution Prevention and Control Law - including a "river chief" system-was approved at the closing ceremony of the bimonthly session of the top legislative body on June 27. It will take effect on Jan 1.
A Long March 5 heavy-lift carrier rocket will be launched sometime between July 2 and 5, following the first flight of the model in November, according to Chinese space officials.
China would like to strengthen intelligence sharing and joint law enforcement with other nations to combat drug offenses committed by foreigners, according to the Ministry of Public Security.
China's new bullet trains, with the name Fuxing - meaning rejuvenation - emblazoned on the outside, were officially launched on the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway line on June 26.
The principle of "one country, two systems" in Hong Kong has proved successful over the past 20 years, President Xi Jinping said on Thursday, calling for confidence in the arrangement.
On his first trip outside Beijing in late 2012, after becoming general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, Xi Jinping laid flowers before a statue of Deng Xiaoping, China's former leader, on a hillside in Shenzhen, which neighbors Hong Kong.
President Xi Jinping witnessed the signing on Thursday of a cooperation agreement between the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Beijing's Palace Museum for the development of the Hong Kong Palace Museum.
Stopping suspected terrorists from crossing borders illegally and smuggling firearms must be prioritized as regional anti-terrorism cooperation continues to intensify, according to China's most senior border control official.
China recognized 30 new national masters of traditional Chinese medicine during a ceremony in Beijing on Thursday.
China urged the United States on Thursday to honor promises it made over the Taiwan question and stop military contact with Taiwan immediately to avoid damaging China-US ties.
Premier Li Keqiang delivers the keynote address at the opening ceremony of the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2017, also known as the Summer Davos, in Dalian, on Tuesday. The following is the full text of his speech:
Important, but hard, lessons were learned during the 2003 outbreak of the deadly virus, as Honey Tsang reports from Hong Kong.