Chinese Internet company Sohu.com has announced plans to build a new research and development center in Wuhan, Hubei province, and it will set up a joint laboratory in collaboration with Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

Beijing Municipal Government has publish a report on the sanitation and health status of Beijing permanent residents.

Following the recent deadly knife attacks on schoolchildren, China's Ministry of Education has issued an emergency circular which requires education departments at all levels to work with the local finance departments to tighten campus security.

Caring About the Next Generation College Student Development Fund, one of China's first NGO-funded institutions dedicated to the development of college students, has been formally unveiled in Beijing.

In 2010, Shanghai plans to set an example for the rest of the country by offering free compulsory education to children of migrant workers.

To protect the interests of Hepatitis B virus carriers, China's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Health have jointly issued a circular which requires that Hepatitis B checkups for school enrollment and employment purposess be abolished.

Beijing's first mental health school for migrant workers has been unveiled in a construction site in the city's Chaoyang district.