July 2
The Ministry of Education held a press conference on the new policy to help university students from poor families.

July 3
It was learned from the National Symposium on Inter-City Cooperation on Legal Aid for Farmer Workers that more than 40 cities have joined the inter-city legal aid cooperation network, and more cities were ready to join the network. The key tasks of legal aid were to carry out its policies and responsibilities, make more efforts in its publicity and enlarge its coverage，said Wang Junyi, deputy director of the Legal Aid Center of the Ministry of Justice.

July 4
According to Zhang Jun, vice-president of the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Court has adopted the exclusive exercise of the power to approve death penalty cases since Jan. 1, 2007. The reform of death penalty approval system was implemented and transited smoothly. The approval of death penalty exercised fairly and effectively in the past half year, obeying the rules strictly and orderly. All high courts strictly handled the cases according to the law, and second trials of death sentences were conducted via open court sessions. The qualities of trials were further guaranteed.

July 4
The inaugural meeting of China Community Health Association was held in Beijing. Wu Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, vice-premier of the State Council and leader of the State Council Urban Community Health Leading Group, greeted the community health workers sincerely in her congratulatory letter.

July 7
The rural informationization pilot project of the Ministry of Information Industry and the Project of Shandong Rural Informationization Service system was launched in Jinan, which indicated that driven by the government, China would integrate social resources to accelerate the reconstruction of traditional agriculture by information technology, promote informationization construction in the new countryside and strengthen farmers' ability to increase income. It was learned that the rural informationization trial project would cover 16 provinces in China.

July 7
The Conference of China Enterprise Hospitals was held in Beijing. According to message from the conference, by the end of this May, 166 million people in China have been covered by medical security. Based on urban and rural social medical salvation, a multi-level medical security system has been initially formed, and its main body consists of medical insurance for urban employees and residents and new type rural cooperative medical treatment.

July 8
It was learned from the first National Forum on Experience of Promoting Socialized Old-age Care and Strengthening the Management of Old-age Care Institutions that in recent years, various types of old-age care appeared continuously, such as institutional care, home care and community service. By now, there were more than 40,000 old-age care institutions in China, and about 1.7 million bunks.

July 10
China's food and drug safety situation was not something that can be optimistic about, said Yan Jiangying, spokeswoman for the State Food and Drug Supervision Administration. The Chinese government had always been attaching great importance to food and drug security, sparing no effort to solve the current outstanding issues and explore long-lasting mechanism, seeking both temporary and permanent solutions.

July 18
It was learned from the ongoing National Workshop on Combating Domestic Violence held in Shenyang that the community has become an important field to fight against domestic violence and the number of "Zero-domestic-violence Community" has increased continuously. The ideas of preventing and combating domestic violence was getting more and more popular and the social environment was becoming better and better thanks to the efforts of media and social organizations, said Mo Wenxiu, Vice president of the All-China Women's Federation.

July 19
Jiang Jinfang, deputy director of the Department of Legal Publicity under the Ministry of Justice, recently said that at present, 3149 Legal aid agencies have been established in China, and 1132 legal aid stations have been set up in the Communist Youth League organizations to provide minors with convenient and swift legal service and legal aid.

July 20
According to the data from the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, China created job posts for 6.29 million new additions to the workforce and 2.79 million laid-off workers from January to June. Another 740,000 people who had difficulties in finding jobs got employed during that period. By the end of June, the nation had accomplished 70 percent of its employment targets for the year, with an increase of 210,000 more people employed year-on-year.

July 21
Wen Jiabao, premier of the State Council, visited the Desheng Street Social Security Office, resident communities and community health service centers to investigate and research on issues like basic medical insurance for urban residents and construction of community health system.

July 23
The General Office of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress arranged a video lecture in Beijing on learning and carrying out of the Labor Contact Law, trying to explain this law in detail to all circles of the society. The Labor Contact Law will come into effect on New Year's Day next year.

July 23-24
National Conference on Pilot Work of Basic Medical Insurance for Urban Residents was held in Beijing. Wen Jiabao, premier of State Council，discussed with some representatives to hear their opinions and suggestions, and made an important speech. It was a great step to establish the Basic Medical Insurance system for Urban Residents, aiming mainly at meeting medical needs of urban non-employees, especially primary and middle school students, children, the elderly and the handicapped, said Wen Jiabao.

July 24
China's Ministry of Health has allocated 39.88 million yuan (5.24 million U.S. dollars) to the flood-hit areas in Anhui, Henan, Sichuan, Chongqing and Hunan for disease control and reconstruction after the disaster.

July 26
Funded by WHO, China's first reproductive health project of floating population declared its completion in Xishan District, Kunming, Yunnan Province. After a year and a half of practice, the project has formed the "Xishan Mode" for promoting reproductive health of floating population.

July 27
The National Conference on Quality Work was held in Beijing. Wen Jiabao, premier of the State Council, attended and addressed the meeting. He indicated that product quality concerned the immediate interests of the masses, the subsistence and development of enterprises, as well as the image of the country. The government must work hard to meet the masses' increasing needs of product quality and food safety.

July 30
The 11th Sino-Australia human rights dialogue was conducted in Beijing under active, frank and constructive atmosphere. Both sides expressed that they will continue to conduct dialogues, exchanges and cooperation based on mutual respect, equal treatment and mutual noninterference in internal affairs in the field of human rights.