China's Chief Justice Tuesday called for innovation in the management of the country's trial process and enhanced supervision to ensure justice and a clean judicial system.

Sixteen science fiction writers, publications and organizations won the first Xingyun Awards, an international award for Chinese-language sci-fi writers, in Chengdu Sunday.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Friday expressed his hope that scholars from home and abroad will contribute more to China's cultural development.

China will continue its proactive fiscal policy in the second half of the year, focusing on speeding up economic restructuring, Finance Minister Xie Xuren said Tuesday.

A Chinese energy official on Tuesday rejected a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) saying China surpassed the United States to become the world's biggest energy consumer last year.

China's Ministry of Finance plans to sell 23.2 billion yuan (3.42 billion U.S. dollars) of three-year bonds for seven local governments on July 19, according to a statement posted Friday on the ministry's website.

China Thursday expressed support for India and Pakistan's efforts to narrow their differences through dialogue and cooperation, as India's top diplomat visits Pakistan. Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang made the remarks at a regular press briefing.

The growth of China's industrial value-added output was up 17.6 percent in the first half of the year from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Thursday.

China's economy expanded by 11.1 percent year-on-year in the first half of 2010, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Thursday.

China announced Thursday it would introduce a new collective decision-making procedure into its powerful and profitable state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in a bid to strengthen anti-corruption efforts and guard against financial risks to those companies.

A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said Tuesday that China hoped its strategic relationship with Japan would continue its stable development after Japan's ruling party suffered a setback in Upper House elections.

The People's Bank of China (PBOC), the central bank, announced Tuesday that it has authorized the Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited (BOCHK), to provide RMB cash settlement services to Taiwan.

China's steel output in 2010 might hit a new high of 620 to 630 million tonnes, a 10 percent increase year on year, Minister of Industry and Information Technology Li Yizhong forecast at a forum Monday.

The Cross-Strait Economic, Trade and Culture Forum, a regular forum between the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Taiwan's Kuomintang (KMT) Party, opened Saturday in the southern city of Guangzhou.

Ten years after it unveiled a strategy to promote growth in its western area, China announced a plan to continue the initiative, even as the world's third largest economy strives to shift to a more domestic-driven growth.