April 1
"The Means for Paying Litigation Expenses" was implemented. It clarified how the payment is exempted, reduced or postponed. Therefore, much more people can afford their litigation fees.

April 3
Gao Qiang, minister of the Ministry of Public Health, revealed that from June 2005, when the project of "Assisting Rural Hygiene with 10 Thousand Physicians" was initiated, till now, there had been 10 thousand medical personnel from 518 hospitals in cities in mid-west China went to 592 county hospitals and 1300 grass roots hospitals, giving treatment to nearly two million patients.

April 5
Criminal judicial protection of intellectual property rights in China was further strengthened after judicial interpretation of the handling of penal cases of intellectual property rights violations was promulgated jointly by the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate for the second time. The previous one happened in Dec. 2004, which had already significantly reduced the "threshold" of criminal punishment of intellectual property rights violation.

April 10
The Austrian National Council Member Gabriel Hainis Hosek stated that China is very straightforward to its Human Rights issues. Upon invitation of China Society for Human Rights Studies, the Austrian Human Rights Delegation, led by Hosek, visited China from 2nd to 10th of April. The delegation paid visits to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the NPC, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, the Information Office of State Council, Three Gorges Project Construction Committee Office of the State Council, and the All-China Women's Federation. The Deligation also visited some urban and rural communities in Beijing, Shanghai and Xi'an and had face-to-face conversations with the residents.

April 12
In 2006, the annual financial income of China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation reached 240 million yuan, 31.7% more than the year before. The Foundation has put 170 million yuan worth of fund and supply in six kinds of poverty alleviation projects covering 235 counties and 423 colleges, benefiting 533,600 people, 8.2% more than the year before.

April 17
Zhang Xiaojian, Minister of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, stated in the National Working Conference for Comprehensive  Management of Social Order that the amount of urban new jobs in 2006 exceeded 10 million for the first time. Departments of Labour and Social Security will further enlarge the employment channels to promote stability and harmony of social situation.

April 19
According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the year-on-year growth of China's economy in the first quarter of 2007 was 11.1%. Since 2003, China's economy has maintained a double-digit growth. From the year 2003 to 2006, the economic growth rates are 10.0%、10.1%、10.4%、10.7%, respectively.

April 22
April 22 of this year was the 38th "World Earth Day". China's theme of the "World Earth Day" this year was "treat the earth kindly starting from resource saving".

April 27
During the National Seminar on Gender Statistics held in Nanchang, Jiangxin Province, Dr.Bernard Conquelin, resident representative of the United Nations Population Fund in China, affirmed China's endeavor on gender equality in the past 15 years. He believed that the Chinese government had attached great importance to gender statistics in recent years, which was very favorable to analyzing China's social status.

April 28
A special fund for providing assistance to the elderly in difficulties was officially initiated in the Great Hall of the People. This fund would assist the government to provide basic living needs for the elderly whose lives could not be guaranteed.