The number of Christians in China has hit a record number in 2010, according to a survey released on recently by the institute of world religions at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences [...]

Researchers have been busy calculating what China’s carbon emissions target announced last year will mean for the average family [...]

Six out of 10 Chinese white-collar workers say they are feeling over-fatigued due to work and other pressures, a survey has found [...]

According to Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), 85 percent of Chinese families can not afford housing expenditure, and house prices are much higher than their incomes [...]

The emissions cut target proposed by developed countries is “unfair” to developing countries, a Chinese expert said recently: Pan Jiahua, executive director of the research centre for sustainable development of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, made the statement in an interview with Xinhua at the Global Economic Symposium (GES 2009) held in Ploen Castle, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany [...]

China’s urban population surged to 607 million with an urbanization rate of 45.7 percent at the end of 2008, a social researcher revealed recently [...]

More than half of nearly 800 wealthy Chinese recently polled believe the widening gap between the rich and poor is also creating an emerging upper class in China [...]

Cai Fang, a senior researcher with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences recently criticized the current Hukou system as a main cause behind social inequality. He suggested the Chinese government scrap all privileges inherent in an urban Hukou as part its efforts to reform the Hukou system [...]

China should focus on self-innovation rather than over-reliance on technology imports to achieve the industrial modernization, according to a blue paper issued by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) recently. The report was made upon CASS’s survey on the country’s 15 key industries. The result showed inadequate investment in self-innovation in China, which has held back the country from faster industrialization [...]

Beijing’s population is approaching the saturation point, Wei Chenlin, director of the municipal bureau of land and resources, said on recently. The population upper limit for the city, according to the bureau of land and resources, is 18 million. Currently the population has surpassed 16.3 million. It is estimated that by 2020 the population will be 21 million.