Deepening Reforms
- More than 90 million Chinese students received financial support from the government in 2016, up 7.6 percent year on year.
- China will build 6 million new homes for residents of shantytowns before the end of 2017.
- The amount of smuggled ivory tracked down in China fell 80 percent in 2016 from previous peak years.
- China's environmental inspectors named and shamed more cities on Sunday for poor air quality control as the fight against smog continues.
- China will move more swiftly in legislating a long-discussed property tax law, an official said on Thursday.
- The Supreme People's Court released a revised regulation on digital trial recording to improve transparency in court proceedings.
- China's resort island province of Hainan aimed to achieve growth of over 7 percent this year, after a 7.5-percent expansion in 2016, as its legislative session closed Friday.
- The discipline watchdog of the Communist Party of China (CPC) exposed six cases involving officials who were held accountable for their poor leadership.
- Chinese courts have corrected 34 major miscarriages of justice in the past four years in order to build the public's confidence in the justice system, according to the Supreme People's Court.
