Central government ministries and departments responded to public concerns in a series of areas, such as the HIV infection incident in Zhejiang and the development of industry and information technology.
After spearheading a revolution in e-commerce, the founder of Alibaba Group, billionaire Jack Ma, is setting his sights on China's education system by establishing a private bilingual school.
A man in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, was placed under investigation for threatening two doctors, blaming them for his aunt's death from pneumonia.
China has set a new record for copyrights, processing more than 2 million new registrations last year, a rise of 22.3 percent compared with 2015, the National Copyright Administration of China said on Monday.
A polished bronze mirror unearthed in China's most complete Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 24) cemetery bears the earliest known image of Confucius, while the writing on it may offer more information about the educator and philosopher who lived about 2,500 years ago, an archaeologist said on Monday.
A survey has found that more than 30 percent of university students were pressured by their families to take part in a blind date or matchmaking when they returned home during the recent Spring Festival holiday, according to a report by China Youth Daily.
Following President Xi Jinping's speech last year on the principles of the Communist Party of China's media and publicity work, the country's major media outlets recently published articles highlighting the changes they have made to news reporting.
As a journalist of more than six years, I've become accustomed to looking back at my best story from the previous year and looking forward to what I can report in the coming months.
On Feb 19 last year, President Xi Jinping used a remote news reporting system at Xinhua News Agency to talk with a correspondent in a village in Lankao county, Henan province.
The question I always ask myself before I pursue a story is: "Why would anyone care?"
Four kinds of vaccine for the H7N9 strain of bird flu virus have been approved for clinical trials by China's top drug regulator, according to the Beijing Food and Drug Administration.