Chen Guangcheng pleaded for his family's safety after escaping from house arrest on Friday. Chen, a blind activist who revealed abuses under China's one-child policy, reportedly fled his guarded home in Shandong Province on Sunday.
Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao lowered the country’s growth target for 2012 to 7.5% in order to relieve pressure on prices as he called for a new emphasis on domestic consumption at the start of China’s annual parliamentary session on Monday.
China’s premier Wen Jiabao (pictured) pledged his country’s cooperation to help Europe fight its debt crisis during a meeting Friday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel but denied it meant China wanted to “buy Europe”.
China will spread the benefits of economic growth and tackle inflation, the country’s Premier Wen Jiabao said Saturday in his annual address to parliament, hinting that China is worried about risks of unrest stemming from wage gaps.
During a key address before the Chinese Congress to open its annual session, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao vowed to step up efforts to meet the basic social security needs of his country's many poor.
China set its first carbon emissions limits on Thursday and said Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (pictured) would attend a key environmental summit in Copenhagen in December, signalling a new willingness to tackle climate change.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (photo) met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il on his arrival in Pyongyang, according to the official Chinese news agency. The visit raises hopes that Pyongyang will return to nuclear disarmament talks.
On the anniversary of last year’s deadly riots in Lhasa, Tibet was shut off from the outside world Saturday, with a heavy Chinese security presence stationed across the restive region.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has called on France to clarify its stance on Tibet, saying problems had emerged between the two countries "due to the high-profile meetings between French leaders and the Dalai Lama".
In his annual speech to the opening session of parliament, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said the country was facing "unprecedented" challenges from a worsening global financial crisis but that he still expected GDP growth of 8% for 2009.
