China should appoint more full-time spokespersons and promote the professionalization of the sector, as the current system has impaired the country's news release and information transparency efforts, a senior political adviser said.

Premier Li Keqiang encouraged Jiangxi province to play an important role in the construction of the economic belt along the Yangtze River.

President Xi Jinping has urged Anhui province, which spearheaded land reform in 1978 that broke up the previous commune-style collective farming, to actively deepen reforms in the area.

Former minister says China's national healthcare system has to be affordable.

How to seek further and better development for resource-based cities in Northeast China's Heilongjiang province has become a big concern, according to a meeting during the annual session of the National People's Congress.

Deputies to the National People's Congress have called for effective measures to protect ancient towns from damage by fire following several blazes in recent months.

Fujian province will make greater efforts to protect its natural environment as it presses ahead with economic development, said the province's legislators.

South Korea's Samsung SDI Co Ltd plans to build two new facilities in Xi'an, capital of northwest Shaanxi province, to produce an electronic car battery and semiconductor package, the provincial governor has revealed.

Authorities in the poverty-stricken province of Guizhou vow that the region's gross domestic product will maintain its double-digit growth rate over the next three to five years.

Suzhou is offering aid to improve education and promote tourism in Tongren, Guizhou province, to help the city fight poverty.

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Construction is set to begin this year on a railway linking Lhasa and Nyingchi prefecture in the Tibet autonomous region with an estimated 30 billion yuan ($4.9 billion) investment, top Tibetan officials said on Wednesday in Beijing.

In the last 35 years, China occupied itself with learning how to get along with the rest of the international community, while the rest of the world invested similar effort in getting to know China better.

"What they (the Chinese government) are talking about in all these different issues will determine the future of China and will determine the future of US-China relations," Stephen Orlins said.

The top legislator of the Tibet autonomous region said on Sunday that authorities have not changed their policy toward the 14th Dalai Lama, who fled to India after a failed riot in 1959.