The media called Li Qingsong's rescue a "miracle". He was pulled out unscathed from under the rubble after more than 104 hours.
Postman Zhang Yudong completed his 56-m run as a torchbearer in Jixi county, the fourth leg in Anuhui province, on Friday. But most people did not know him.
CHENGDU: As well as jet lag, Jose Jorge Rodrigvez worried language barriers might hamper his disaster relief efforts.
Visiting Republic of Korea (ROK) President Lee Myung-bak spoke not only of geopolitics Thursday during his speech at Peking University, but also of a brief romance he once had with a Chinese girl.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has emerged as the 10th most popular politician on the Facebook social networking site. Govt's Response Earns Recognition
Two days before the torch relay in Heifei, his name was not even on the list of the torchbearers.
Xue Xiao, a quake survivor, is better known to most Chinese by another name - Cola Boy.
Both foreign and local communities in Shanghai dipped into their pockets Monday in a generous initiative to raise money for disaster relief efforts currently operating in quake-ravaged Sichuan.
Yao Ming wakes up each morning and immediately heads for the computer to get the latest news on the earthquake that devastated China.
77-year-old Zhong Junxiu was sitting in front of her collapsed home in the village of Haozhao in the town of Xiaode at 3pm yesterday. Her 78-year-old husband Lin Shude was sitting beside her with a bag of fertilizer.
A self-styled "prophet" of China's stock market has been jailed for three years and fined 600,000 yuan (US$86,333) for illegally selling share tips over the Internet.
A homeless beggar in his 60s and a middle-aged shoeshine woman have come to epitomize people's selflessness in supporting the victims of the Sichuan earthquake.