The Ministry of Education has selected Shandong Province, Hunan Province and Chongqing City to pilot the provision of equal opportunities for children of migrant workers to receive primary and middle school education as well as to participate in entrance
Several professors with Peking University have handed in a proposal on revising the Expropriation and Compensation Regulation of Houses on State-owned Land (Second Draft Version) to the legal affairs office of the State Council. One of their suggestions i
The Beijing Housing Fund Management Center announced yesterday that the annual interest rate of housing loans of five years and under has been raised from 3.5% to 3.75% and the rate of housing loans above five years has been lifted from 4.05% to 4.3%. Thi
During the 18th Conference of the Standing Committee of the 11th NPC this morning, National Development and Reform Committee deputy director Zhu Zhixin claimed that the price of medicines included on the essential drug list launched last August as a part
In the first year of the 12th Five-Year Plan, China will raise its poverty line to a yearly per capita net income of 1500 yuan. There are more than 100 million people in China who fall below that level.
Yesterday a spokesman for Shanghai No. 2 People's Procuratorate confirmed that three more suspects have been detained in relation with the November 15 Shanghai high-rise fire which killed 58 people.
Yesterday Premier Wen Jiabao presided over an executive meeting of the State Council which decided to increase the pension for retirees by an average of 140 yuan per month. Additionally, yearly subsidies for college students will increase to 3000 yuan fro
Last night, in the wake of news reports about severe dust pollution in Wuhan, Wuhan officials conducted an inspection of two construction sites and vowed to improve the situation and strengthen punishments for polluters.
Towards the end of this year, Russian police and immigration department officials began launching raids on Chinese workers in Russia. According to Russian reports made on December 22, 50 Chinese nationals have been arrested in Irkutsk, 16 of which will be
Yesterday China's envoy Chen Yunlin and his Taiwan counterpart Chiang Pin-kung in Taipei, signed a cross-Strait medical and health cooperation agreement, which includes cross-strait exchanges on medical issues such as dealing with epidemics of infectious
Yesterday, the 18th Conference of the 11th NPC Standing Committee reviewed a draft amendment to China's Water and Soil Conservation Law. According to a committee member, Clause 32 of the draft amendment attracted the most attention and discussion; the cla
Yesterday the National Development and Reform Commission announced that the price of gasoline will rise 310 yuan per ton and the price of diesel will rise 300 yuan per ton as of today. The retail price of grade 90 gasoline will increase by 0.23 yuan per l
Liu Jianchun, former Deputy Director of the Propaganda Department of Chongqing's municipal CPC Committee, was sentenced to 11 years in prison by Chongqing's No.3 Intermediate People's Court yesterday. Liu was charged with accepting bribes, equivalent to 1
The General Administration of Press and Publication recently issued a circular of requirements to further standardize language in Chinese publications. The circular states the misuse of words or abbreviations in English and other foreign languages are not
Yesterday, the 18th Conference of the 11th NPC Standing Committee decided to amend China's penal code. In the past, criminals over the age of 75 have been exempt from the death penalty. Now, if a criminal over the age of 75 commits murder through an espec
According to a joint report filed by Xinhua News Agency, China National Radio and CCTV, in 2010 eleven high-level provincial officials were found to have accepted bribes of over 5 million yuan each.
At the "2010 Accountant of the Year Ceremony," Jia Kang, director of the Institute of Fiscal Finance, warned against limiting tax reforms to threshold increases. He went on to say that reform measures should aim at determining the residents' "real income"
The Ministry of Land and Resources (MOLAR) issued a notice last night requiring that the land resource departments of each city and province in China adopt strict measures to oversee and control the process of hoarding and other illegal land activities by
Xinhua News Agency learned from the Sichuan Government Information office that the prairie fire on December 5th in Daofu County, Sichuan Province was started by a six year old boy playing with matches. The fire claimed 22 lives. Legal action may be taken
