The pension system covered 484 million people as of 2012, according to figures revealed by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security Wednesday.
A survivor of a traffic accident involving more than 40 vehicles is removed from a vehicle on Wednesday.
More than 70% of China's Internet users will enjoy access to broadband Internet in 2013, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said Tuesday.
Young Tibetans throw zanba - roasted highland barley flour - on Monday to wish for a bumper harvest in Gyangze county, Xigaze prefecture, in the Tibet autonomous region. Gyangze, in southern Tibet, has long been regarded as a grain production area.
People are feeling the pinch from rising prices, and a majority believe prices will rise this year, a poll shows.
Xi called for scientific legislation, strict law enforcement, judicial justice and for everyone in the country to abide by the law, while presiding over a seminar of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee on Saturday.
A teacher paints a red spot on a pupil's forehead during a ceremony on Saturday marking the start of a new school semester in Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi province.
An investigation into allegations that a woman known as "house sister" owned multiple properties with forged identities is under way, Governor of Shaanxi province Lou Qinjian said on Thursday.
Twins from Weifang, Shandong province, run late for the preliminary exam for the performance major at the Beijing Film Academy on Thursday. More than 4,500 candidates are in contention for the 75 vacancies at the academy.
The health and reform office under the State Council released a guideline on Wednesday on the new system that forbids hospitals from linking doctors' incomes with their patients' medicine and medical exam expenses.
Applicants to Shandong University of Art and Design attend a sketching exam in Jinan, Shandong province, on Wednesday, the first day of exams for art major candidates in the province this year. More than 100,000 students will take the exams.
China will proactively introduce a set of new taxation policies designed to preserve the environment, including a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, according to an official with the Ministry of Finance.