中国正在加快自由贸易区的建设步伐。继上海自由贸易区运行一年后，接近官方的两位消息人士周二透露，广东、天津和福建设立自贸区的方案年内有望完成审批。

China's top prosecuting body has said that whistleblowers who expose corruption and other wrongdoing would receive legal protection against reprisals.

Three days after a landmark stock trading scheme linking mainland China and Hong Kong missed its launch date, top officials from either side declined to offer a new timeline, adding to pressure on Beijing to contrive a solution.

China is studying pilot schemes that will allow domestic investors to make overseas investments using the Chinese currency, a move that could pump fresh oxygen into the stagnant offshore yuan pool.

Taiwan's United Microelectronics Corp, the world's No.3 contract chip maker, aims to wholly own the factory of a joint venture in China, whose output will be sold primarily in the mainland market.

China's Communist Party has pledged to speed up legislation to fight corruption and make it tougher for officials to exert control over the judiciary, even as it stressed full control over the courts.

China's top trainmakers, China CNR and CSR Corp, are in merger talks to create a giant able to compete globally with the likes of Siemens and Bombardier, state media reported on Tuesday.

China's Communist Party unveiled legal reforms on Thursday aimed at giving judges more independence and limiting local officials' influence over courts, but it made no mention of the fate of its former domestic security chief who is under investigation for corruption.

China's M&A watchdog is getting much faster at approving both domestic and foreign deals, cutting legal costs for companies and marking a shift in the outlook of a regulator that has been a thorn in the side of bankers since its creation.

The world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases plans to launch a national emissions trading scheme in 2016 in a bid to reduce its impact on climate change and make its economy less reliant on polluting fossil fuels.