14 confirmed dead, 1 still missing from SW China capsizing

CHENGDU - Death toll from a leisure boat capsizing in Southwest China's Sichuan province rose to 14 after more bodies were found, rescuers said o...

Ladder to school on cliff set for upgrade

A local government has vowed to upgrade a precarious ladder used by 15 children from a remote village in Sichuan province who need to scale an 80...

Woman, 82, Supports Family by Selling Zodiac Cartoons

An 82-year-old woman, who draws and sells Chinese zodiac cartoons by the roadside in a central hutong district of Beijing, has attracted much att...

Man Saves Injured Motorist and His Marriage

A man in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, has recently avoided a break-up of his marriage, after he came to the rescue of an in...

A Town Living off Gaokao

After bumping up and down along a winding trail for several hours on an August afternoon, Zheng Hanchao, 19, finally arrived at Maotanchang, a sm...

School Headmaster Modifies Mahjong to Assist English Study

There is a joke that says airplane passengers bound for Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, can hear mahjong tiles clicking together before...

The burning question of household waste in China

Concerns about harmful emissions have resulted in construction being halted at a number of incineration plants around the country. Now, experts a...

Pupils Make 12m Long Paper-cut of Famous Chinese Riverside Scroll

Twenty-four pupils from a primary school in Jiangsu Province made a 12-meter-long paper-cut of famous Chinese painting Qingming Shanghe Tu, also ...

Watermelon Fight Sparks Controversy in SW China

About 2,000 college students from southwest China's Chengdu and Chongqing took part in a rare and controversial watermelon fight on Sunday aftern...

Sexually abusive guardians must lose rights, top court reiterates

The right to be a child's guardian must be removed whenever parents and guardians are found to have sexually abused minors, officials from China'...