China's ongoing annual session of the National People's Congress (NPC) and the annual session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), which ended Saturday morning, have grabbed a lot of world attention.

Edmund Ho Hau Wah, former chief executive of China's Macao special administrative region (SAR), was elected Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) here Saturday.

The possibility is "very slim" that China will see uncontrollable inflation this year but it is possible the economy may suffer from a double-dip slowdown if stimulus measures are withdrawn too quickly.

BEIJING - Any topic related to property prices is a hot topic of discussion among Chinese people at the moment, and members of the National People's Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) attending their annual meetings are no exception.

The country will revamp its higher education system to divest it from the grip of red tape, granting colleges more autonomy, education authorities said on Friday.

Responding to international calls to shut tiger farms in China, a forestry official said a drop in the wild tiger population is not related to the farms.

Google "will bear the consequences" if it stops censoring search results on its Chinese website, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said on Friday. Google denies 'exit China' rumor

Chinese political advisors from Tibet and Xinjiang said Friday that cultural and religious freedom is fully respected and protected according to law in the two ethnic regions, fighting back against an annual US human rights report.

Chinese President Hu Jintao on Friday called on the armed forces to strengthen political construction to provide mighty support for safeguarding China's sovereignty, national security and development interests.