"Since I was 18, I have been unable to buy suitable shoes. When other villagers go to towns and cities for work in the slack season, I'm trapped at home because I don't have shoes."
The authorities have detained 160 members of a criminal gang in Shanghai after the group lured patients to fake medical clinics and sold them overpriced drugs, the city's police said on Tuesday.
President Xi Jinping elaborated on his vision for an overall national security outlook in domestic and external affairs while chairing the first meeting of China's newly established State security commission.
The recent contamination of tap water in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu province, has exposed weaknesses in the city's management, especially its failure to supervise Lanzhou Veolia Water Co, the main supplier of water to the city, according to a city government spokesperson.
A bear farm's transition into a sanctuary has fueled hope among animal activists over a long-running national campaign to end the extraction of bile from the animals.
A multidepartment effort has been introduced to give the public better access to commonly used medications at a relatively low price.
The autonomous underwater device Bluefin-21, which was deployed on Monday for its first search mission for MH370, faced unexpected depths and ended its mission prematurely, US navy Captain Mark Matthews said on Tuesday.
A TV and a swing are among the facilities that have been set up in a giant panda's enclosure at a zoo in Yunnan province in efforts to cheer her up after her last pal returned to her hometown last month.
Industrial enterprises, vehicles and sources from outside Shanghai are the cause of 80 percent of the city's air pollution, the local environment monitoring center said.
To deal with worsening smog, Tianjin will raise pollution discharge fees drastically starting July 1.
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