China will establish a new anti-graft body to put further pressure on corrupt officials, Deputy Procurator General Qiu Xueqiang has said.

Qiu told Xinhua in an exclusive interview that the plan for a new anti-graft agency was put forward by the Party committee of the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) and was approved by the central authority.

A vice-ministerial level, full-time member of the procuratorial committee will hold a concurrent post as head of the new anti-graft agency. The new agency will be better organized and better able to help the SPP handle major cases and break institutional obstacles.

China established the anti-corruption bureau under the SPP in 1995. After almost 20 years of development, it has struggled to meet demands due to ineffectiveness in handling corruption cases.

More Students Abroad

The government-sponsored China Scholarship Council (CSC) on October 30 said it will send 25,000 students abroad next year, 17 percent more than in 2014.

An official with the CSC said the expansion will include up to 8,000 more Chinese graduate and doctorate students.

The official said the CSC have sent 20,400 students abroad in 2014, making a total of 46,000 students in 85 countries supported by the CSC.

The council has established programs with some international organizations. In July, it signed an agreement with the UNESCO to send interns there.

Since 1996, the CSC has sent over 160,000 Chinese students to study abroad, and 98 percent of them have returned home.

Quantum Network

China will build a global quantum communication network by 2030, according to a leading Chinese quantum physicist on November 2.

"China's quantum information science and technology is developing very fast and China leads in some areas in this field," said Pan Jianwei, a Chinese quantum scientist and professor at the University of Science and Technology of China.

The field of quantum communication, the science of transmitting quantum states from one place to another, has grabbed global attention in recent years since the discovery of quantum cryptography, which is described as a way of creating "unbreakable" codes.

China will achieve Asia-Europe intercontinental quantum key distribution in 2020 and build a global quantum communication network in 2030, said Pan at the 2014 International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing, which opened on November 2 in Hefei, Anhui Province.

This is the first time that China has hosted the influential biannual quantum conference, which lasted until November 6.

More than 400 experts from 28 countries and regions discussed research, achievements and industrialization in the quantum information field during the meeting.