The growth rate of the Chinese services sector slowed to a one-year low in August, mainly due to a slower increase in new orders.
Beijing plans to finish building its PM2.5 monitor network across the city by the end of September.
A children's welfare institute in East China has denied that it used public donations to buy a luxury Mercedes-Benz to please officials.
More than 12 million school-age children of migrant workers live with their parents who work outside their hometowns, Beijing News reported.
The coastal city of Ningbo has intercepted 9.26 tons of scrap metal that was contaminated with radioactive material in Japan's nuclear crisis last year.
China's "Lord of the Rings" Chen Yibing got a gold medal on Monday from netizens who pooled their money online to buy the gold for Chen after his surprise defeat in the men's rings competition in the London Olympic Games, reported Beijing Morning Post.
Beijing will see the fastest office rental growth this year and in the next five years, with rents expected to surpass Shanghai in 2013.
A woman was fined 100 yuan ($15.70) for insisting on using her cell phone when a plane she was on was landing on Sunday, according to a local media report.
China's Big Four State-owned banks extended almost the same amount in loans in August as in the previous month.
A recent survey showed that the country's fund managers remain moderately optimistic on the stock market, though a recent decline dragged valuations to new lows.
Beijing's main Olympic venues are still operating more than four years after the Games closed, the People's Daily has reported.
The State Administration of Foreign Exchange granted $500 million in new quotas in August for the Qualified Domestic Institutional Investors scheme.
