Wu Bangguo, Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, says the top legislature always focuses on the overall work of the Communist Party of China and the country. He notes a lot of attention has been given by the lawmakers to the...
The United Nations Security Council has unanimously passed a new resolution imposing new sanctions on North Korea. As CRI's Washington correspondent Lv Xiaohong reports, while China has thrown its support behind the new sanctions, it's also calling f...
Under China's current pricing system - which was introduced back in 2009, domestic fuel prices are only adjusted when prices of overseas crude oil change by more than 4 percent over 22 working days. We will raise or cut fuel prices more swiftly and m...
Water contamination has caught increasing attention among the Chinese public. Some have gone so far as to challenge local environmental officials to swim in a polluted river. Ma Jun has been an active environmentalist for more than 10 years. About ha...
The central bank here in China is making moves to allow more flexibility in the yuan's exchange rate. Yi Gang, deputy governor of the People's Bank of China, has made the suggestion on the sidelines of the National People's Congress. At the same time...
China's top economic planner says the country is studying a new fuel pricing scheme to make it reflect the global markets' oil price fluctuations more swiftly. Zhang Ping, the head of the National Development and Reform Commission or NDRC, says the c...
Premier Wen Jiabao's last government work report to this year's National People's Congress put a large emphasis on energy efficiency and pollution reduction. Part of the strategy talks about reforming the current energy pricing system and shoring up...
The government has declared seven days of national mourning to commemorate the socialist leader. Opposition leader Henrique Capriles has also offered his condolences and appealed for unity. Hugo Chavez passed away at the age of 58 on Tuesday afternoo...
China's central government set the goal of increasing the country's educational expenditure to 4 percent of the GDP 20 years ago. This goal was finally reached in 2012, according to Finance Minister Xie Xuren at last year's national fiscal work meeti...
Zhang Ping made the comments at a press conference on the sidelines of China's ongoing legislative session. I have confidence in China's economic development in the future. After more than 30 years of reforming and opening to the outside world, China...
Beijing and other parts of northern China have been battered by smog starting from the beginning of this year. The capital was blanketed by smog for 26 days in January, while eastern China's Jiangsu Province saw 13 days of heavy pollution in February...
In the 1990s, China became the world's factory after its opening up and economic reform. Many coastal provinces in the east have accumulated a wealth of capital since then. In recent years, however, the country has been witnessing a wave of industria...
SHANGHAI DAILY A call to relax adoption criteria A Chinese lawmaker is calling for the government to make adoption easier amid the increasing number of families who want to adopt. Jia Weiping, director of the Shanghai Diabetes Institute, says inferti...
In his last ever government work report, Wen Jiabao is warning China's development model is facing problems which are unbalanced, uncoordinated and unsustainable. The Chinese premier listed several issues in the development of the world's second larg...
China's banking regulator has revealed plans to launch more pilot banks in an attempt to create more government-regulated fund companies. Shang Fulin is the chair of the China Banking Regulatory Commission. This act will help improve the social finan...
