Residents of Nanjing, Jiangsu province, have handed in about 80,000 bricks over the past year to help the city government restore the ancient city wall.
The mother of a firefighter killed in massive chemical explosions in Tianjin in 2015 gave birth to twins at a hospital in Wuhan, Hubei province, on Thursday.
Yanhe Tujia autonomous county is one of 14 severely poverty-stricken counties in Guizhou province.
By the end of last year, 43 million impoverished people were living in China's rural areas, after 55 million people were lifted above the poverty line between 2012 and last year, the National Bureau of Statistics said.
The State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China published a white paper titled "New Progress in the Legal Protection of Human Rights in China" on Friday. Following is the full text of the white paper:
As temperatures continue to fall in Beijing, the capital's maximum power load had reached more than 17.8 million kilowatts by Monday evening, a winter record, according to State Grid Beijing Electric Power Co.
Peng Jiazhi, 28, stages Cantonese storytelling performances in a chess room at Guangzhou's Cultural Park every Monday morning
Harvest time in Padangba, Yunnan province, is when Huang Chuanhe and his wife are too busy to nap after lunch. They must quickly gather ripe coffee berries while the weather is good.
The rights of lawyers to work free from harassment or threats have been bolstered by the establishment of a mechanism designed to provide rapid responses and solutions to complaints, according to Jiang Min, a spokesman for the All China Lawyers Association.
"Thanks to the efforts of several lawyers associations and judicial officers, I avoided threats to my personal safety, and my case was handled quickly," said Gu Qingdong, a lawyer in Beijing.
The Ministry of Justice has issued a regulation to protect lawyers' rights to arrange meetings with clients who are serving prison sentences, the authorities said on Monday.
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