China is ready to welcome the US strategic rebalancing to Asia-Pacific if it is constructive to the region's peaceful cooperation.
The work reports of two Chinese judicial bodies, delivered to the top legislature Thursday, demonstrated that the authorities had stepped up anti-corruption campaign last year.
The number of criminal cases of polluters in China increased by 8.5 times in 2014, according to the work report of the Supreme People's Court.
China's Chief Justice Zhou Qiang on Thursday expressed self-reproach for wrongful convictions and urged fellow judges to learn from them.
The government will no longer authorize or fund science and technology projects directly, but focus instead on making development plans, assessing projects and monitoring evaluation and research funds, the science and technology minister said on Wednesday.
The election of deputies must be developed more strictly, in an attempt to ensure they are qualified and diversified, according to a deputy of China's top legislature.
Chinese courts handled 558 cases related to separatism and terrorism, an increase of 14.8% year-on-year, says chief justice Zhou Qiang.
The legislature of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region plans to draft a regulation by 2016 to curb religious extremism. It may include a ban on wearing clothes in public linked to religious extremism such as full face and body coverings, the head of the legislature said.