Genetically modified (GM) foods still have a long way to go before they reach the Chinese market even though the Ministry of Agriculture has certificated two strains of GM rice, a senior rural affairs official said.

A Chinese lawmaker on Wednesday proposed naming peony as the national flower to fill what he called an embarrassing vacancy.

The United States, as the world's largest developed nation, should exert more efforts to tackle climate change, Xie Zhenhua, vice minister of the National Development and Reform Commission, said here Wednesday.

Hu Xiaoyan, one of China's first three national legislators who represent the country's millions of migrant workers, has had her official residency status transferred from her rural hometown in Sichuan to the city she now works in Guangdong.

Over-supply of labor in China's vast rural areas will continue now and for years to come, as China's migrant workers numbered about 230 million in 2009, Vice Minister of Agriculture Wei Chao'an said here Wednesday.

China's top legislature should quickly enact the taxation of e-commerce, as an increasing number of buyers and sellers are relying on business-to-consumer (B2C) and consumer-to-consumer (C2C) websites to buy and sell goods, a political advisor said here Tuesday.

China's top legislator Wu Bangguo said Tuesday that the top legislature would ensure the goal of formulating a socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics be achieved by the end of this year as scheduled. Highlights of Wu Bangguo's work report

China's National People's Congress (NPC), the country's top legislature, said on Tuesday that it would tighten and improve the supervision over government this year.

China will keep the exchange rate of the renminbi, or the country's currency yuan, basically stable at a reasonable and balanced level, a central bank vice governor reaffirmed Tuesday.

China's special envoy to the Middle East denied on Friday that interest in oil is the key reason why Beijing opposes tougher sanctions on Iran.