Police to help hospitals reduce patient disputes

Public security departments will improve cooperation with health authorities to reduce medical disputes between patients and hospitals, Li Jingsheng, chief of security administration at the Ministry of Public Security, said at a conference on Wednesday with several departments.

First female paratrooper donates savings to hometown

Ma Xu, China's first female paratrooper and a doctor for the People's Liberation Army in the 1940s, donated her life savings of 10 million yuan ($1.45 million) earlier this month to her hometown, Mulan county, in Heilongjiang province.

Illegal berths, sand-mining targeted along Yangtze River

A more vigorous campaign will be conducted to stop illegal sand-mining activities and eliminate squatter berths and docks along the Yangtze River, according to the National Development and Reform Commission.

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Warning delivered on holiday excess

The country's top anti-graft agency ordered all officials to uphold the Communist Party of China's eight-point frugality code during the coming National Day holiday and to keep the disciplinary rules firmly in mind to avoid violations

Ex-Hebei legislator gets life in jail

Yang Chongyong, a former senior legislator in Hebei province, was sentenced to life imprisonment, deprivation of political rights for life and forfeiture of all personal property on Thursday by Tianjin's Second Intermediate People's Court for accepting bribes valued at more than 206 million yuan ($32.2 million).

Action plan aims to add more clear winter days

The Ministry of Ecology and Environment released an action plan on Thursday that aims to add more days of clear skies this autumn and winter.

Academy converts science to products

The Chinese Academy of Sciences will intensify its efforts to transform research into products that can improve society, officials said on Thursday.

Tsinghua tops Peking in school rankings

Tsinghua University has overtaken Peking University for the first time and was named the best higher education institution on the Chinese mainland in the latest Times Higher Education report.

Arctic expedition finishes mission

Two unmanned ice stations have been set up to extend China's ability to observe the northern seas, scientists from the Chinese icebreaker Xuelong said as they wrapped up their most recent expedition.

Shandong gang members, Party slackers punished

Fifty-four criminal organizations and 284 mafia-style gangs in Shandong province have been busted as of Tuesday since the province launched its first round of crackdowns on organized crime, a senior official said on Tuesday.

Man stabs, kills 10-year-old boy in revenge

A recent case in which a father stabbed a 10-year-old boy to death at school in Zhejiang province has stirred heated debate about administrators' roles in the prevention of bullying on campus.