The Chinese provinces of Hebei, Jiangsu, Shandong, and Henan topped a list of the locations with the highest number of environmental complaints made to a special government pollution hotline.

Apple has been stepping up its corporate social responsibility activities in China by announcing it has severed relationships with a company it says "willfully and illegally recruited young workers".

A spate of recent physical confrontations between foreign media and local Chinese security forces has created problems for journalists to perform their news-gathering duties in China.

The China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Centre has exposed 11 internet access service providers that have provided services to websites spreading pornographic and vulgar information.

China's State Food and Drug Administration has suspended the production and sales activities of two companies whose rabies vaccine products were found to be substandard.

The agricultural departments of six provinces in central China have jointly signed an agreement on the quality and safety of farm products, and they will also set up a mechanism to mutually report the on supervision of agricultural products to determine the root cause of substandard products.

The environmental departments of 11 Chinese provinces have jointly signed a framework agreement on cooperation to protect the environment.