According to a Monday report in the People's Daily, China made its first large-scale weapons technology purchases from Russia in the last ten years, when it recently signed an agreement to buy 24 fighter jets and four submarines from Russia.

In a recent ruling in the federal court in Newark, New Jersey, Chinese national Liu Sixing was sentenced to five years and 10 months in jail, in military data theft case.

According to the latest global climate leadership review released by the Climate Institute on Tuesday, Asia now dominates the low-carbon market; thanks largely to the efforts of emerging Asian economies - like Indonesia, Mexico, China, and Turkey - in the direction of reducing carbon emissions for improving environmental conditions.

In a last Thursday report, Reuters revealed that the local government of the city of Wuxi, where Suntech Power Holdings is headquartered, is apparently trying to fend off the collapse of China's leading solar panel manufacturer by seeking to bail out the company.

In an evident attempt to turn around its fortunes for the better, China's ZTE Corp - the fifth-ranking producer of telecoms equipment in the world - is banking on a new generation of tech-savvy smartphone users for driving at least $7.5 billion (4.9 billion pounds) of high-speed 4G network projects.

China's new president Xi Jinping, who assumed office as the country's new head last week, received a lavish reception - with guards on horsebacks welcoming him - upon his arrival in Moscow on Friday.

After stating on Thursday that the coordinated cyberattack on six leading South Korean firms this week had originated in China, South Korean investigators said on Friday that they had misidentified a Chinese internet protocol address as the source of the cyberattack.

In a move which is part of China's five-year plan to get more people to use open source software, the Chinese government has collaborated with Canonical to create a state-endorse operating system.