China investigated 2,723 corrupt officials at or above the county level in 2010, including 188 at the prefecture level and six at the ministerial level.
A traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) expert said Friday that the once popular TCM aficionado Zhang Wuben cannot be counted as a TCM practitioner, while admitting TCM does contribute to expanding life expectancy.
China's central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan said Friday that China is confident of the economy of the euro zone and will support the countries grappling to overcome their fiscal difficulties.
China's currency, or yuan, will see better conditions for its full convertibility in the next five years, but no timetable has been set to achieve this goal, said Hu Xiaolian, deputy governor of the central bank.
The safety of coal miners has improved significantly and more efforts will be made in the coal-rich province of Shanxi to ensure things get even better, top local officials said during the sessions of the country's top legislature and political advisory body.
Despite the severe drought this winter, China is hoping to haul in another good harvest following seven successive record harvests of agricultural products, Agriculture Minister Han Changfu said on Thursday.
The country's legislative work will focus on pushing forward with economic restructuring and protecting people's well-being during the coming years, a senior legislator said on Thursday.
China's top judge Wang Shengjun started to deliver a report on the work of the Supreme People's Court at a meeting of the annual parliament session Friday.
