The Chinese government is projecting a fiscal deficit of 1.2 trillion yuan ($191 billion) for 2013, 400 billion yuan more than the budgeted figure last year.
The State Council announced recently that the policies and measures introduced to cool the housing market still have to be strictly followed.
Former World Bank chief economist Justin Yifu Lin reaffirmed his assertion that China can maintain an 8-percent annual growth for another 20 years.
The salary gap between China's first- and second-tier cities will narrow this year as the nation speeds its urbanization process, human resource experts said.
China plans major bond market reform to raise the money the ruling Communist Party needs for a 40 trillion yuan urbanization program to buoy economic growth.
China seems to have been successfully preserving its own purity and integrity, but questions remain as to how long this can last.
China has seen a surge in the number of students returning to the country after studying overseas, the Ministry of Education said on Thursday.
With an improving economy in China, there will be more active job seekers in the first quarter of this year, the recent Hays Quarterly Report found.
Employers in China's talent-short market are particularly vulnerable to candidates withdrawing from the recruitment process.
China's pension system had covered 484 million people as of 2012, according to figures revealed by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.
China's impoverished population has declined for the first time since the poverty line was raised in 2011, although poverty alleviation work remains arduous.
China's ongoing medical reform has already entered its most difficult stage, Minister of Health Chen Zhu said on Tuesday.
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