Song Zhe, Chinese actor Wang Baoqiang's former agent, was sentenced to six years in prison for embezzlement on Thursday morning, while accomplice Xiu Yule, an artists' coordinator, was jailed for three years.
A permanent exhibition space was opened on Thursday at Yuanmingyuan, also known as the Old Summer Palace, to display 37 stone relics returned to the park from around Beijing to remember an anniversary of pain.
China is set to transform its fire services and armed forestry police to build a national firefighting rescue team, according to a new government plan.
Authorities in Jiangsu province have unveiled plans for a Grand Canal museum and a national cultural park covering multiple cities to protect one of the world's oldest manmade waterways.
Farmers in the Tibet autonomous region's Nyingchi have been collecting medicinal herbs for years. Now they are using them to heal their poverty woes.
The lives of members of the Lhopa ethnic group in the Tibet autonomous region have improved markedly in recent decades, thanks to the reform and opening-up policy that was launched 40 years ago.
The oldest person in Shanghai is age 111, and the number of centenarians had risen to about 2,300 as of Sept 30, according to the latest report released by the Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau.
Since 2000, Baihe, a poverty-stricken county with a population of about 220,000 in the northwestern province of Shaanxi, has sent more than 1,800 students to some of China's best universities, providing a way to raise living standards in the area.
A woman with schizophrenia who lives in a poor county in Hebei province, North China, is finding life easier after starting a job that provides a steady income.
URUMQI - Li Anna, a 64-year-old model from the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, said it is never too late to feel beautiful.
Editor's note: This year marks the 40th anniversary of the launch of China's reform and opening-up policy. China Daily profiles people who experienced or witnessed the important drive.
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