Chinese President Hu Jintao said Thursday the country's private businesses are now standing on a new starting line and urged them to seize opportunities for development.

China's top legislature would enhance budgetary supervision this year to facilitate efforts to transform development pattern and improve people's livelihood, a spokesman said Thursday.

The situation in China's remote Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is stable, a parliament spokesman said Thursday, eight months after a deadly riot in the regional capital of Urumqi.

The situation in China's remote Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is stable, a parliament spokesman said Thursday, eight months after a deadly riot in the regional capital of Urumqi.

Chinese people were angry about the meeting between certain foreign leaders and the Dalai Lama, said Li Zhaoxing, spokesman for the annual session of China's top legislature, Thursday.

The use of Taiwan question by certain country to interfere into China's internal affairs was "unacceptable", said Li Zhaoxing, spokesman of the annual session of China's top legislature, here Thursday.

China plans to increase its defense budget by 7.5 percent in 2010, a major slowdown compared to last year's growth of 14.9 percent, a parliament spokesman said here on Thursday. China's military not a threat
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China plans to launch an unmanned space module, Tiangong-1, which is expected to accomplish the country's first space docking, next year, an expert said on Wednesday.

China's military development will not challenge the United States, a PLA major general and member of the country's top political advisory body said. Defense budget to grow 7.5% Re-inventing economy Full Coverage What's your expectation of China?

A total of 5,820 advices have been submitted to the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the country's top political advisory body.