Judge Guo Jie said she felt safer after China's top court put the protection of judges high on its agenda for this year.
A group of artists has been breaking established norms by deciding to uproot and relocate to a traditional Chinese village, leaving behind their jobs, homes and city lives in the process.
A good taxi driver might expect the occasional compliment. But Tianjin cabbie Jiang Wensheng has received more than 4,200 in 16 years from Chinese and foreign fares.
On a serene night, with a luminous moon gleaming above eastern China's Likeng village, 74-year-old Yu Jiajiu - perhaps the country's last traditional night watchman - sets out to work with his gong and mallet.
Last year was a fruitful one for Chinese archaeologists.
1. Tongtiandong relics in Jeminay, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region - Paleolithic, up to 45,000 years ago
China's national cultural relics watchdog has called for the boycott of an upcoming auction in the United Kingdom featuring a piece of bronzeware suspected of having been looted from China.
Back in 1988, when Hainan island split from Guangdong province and became a province of its own, it was undeveloped. Its economy was dominated by low-productivity agriculture and fishing, which together generated half its GDP of 7.7 billion yuan ($1.1 billion).
The parents of a couple killed in a car crash five years ago finally have the grandson they longed for, after a surrogate carried to term a fertilized embryo deposited by the couple days before the accident.
Unlike smartphone addicts who spend hours a day on social media, playing games or watching videos, residents of Basan village are using smartphones to save lives and local incomes.
Joint wild elephant protection efforts by China and Laos gave impetus to the launch of cross-border wildlife diversity protection work between the two countries in 2006.
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