A tombstone sits on top of a grave mound in the middle of a construction site in a village in Taiyuan, North China's Shanxi province, on Thursday.
Express delivery has become a major channel for drug traders to transport drugs, according to Shanghai Customs officials.
Authorities have formulated 10 measures to shore up the development of cross-border economic cooperation zones in a bid to lift China's opening-up in border areas, a senior official said on Wednesday.
Mo Yan, China's winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, bids farewell to journalists at Beijing Capital International Airport on Wednesday. The writer was leaving for Stockholm, where he will give a speech on Friday ahead of the awards ceremony on Monday.
A military jet crashed into a house near an airport in Shantou Tuesday, damaging the house and injuring four people, the Defense Ministry's news office said.
Emergency workers rescue a victim trapped in a truck on the Beijing-Kunming Highway on Monday. A chain-reaction crash involving more than 100 vehicles killed one person and injured six on the road, which was shrouded by fog, in Sichuan province.
The top family planning authority on Monday issued a notice simplifying the procedure of granting birth permits to parents-to-be, particularly for the migrant population.
A girl and her father in panda costumes perform tea art in a tea garden in Ya'an, Sichuan province, on Sunday. The tea plants in the garden have been fertilized with panda excrement collected by An Yanshi, a former calligraphy teacher who has launched the pricey organic green tea.
As dusk fell in Xiongdang village, Li Songying's relatives and friends gathered around a fire pit fenced with bricks to protect the small, wooden house.
Chinese Internet users have been tirelessly imitating auspicious hand signals by crew members of the country's first aircraft carrier, Liaoning, in celebration of a crucial breakthrough in marching toward a deep-sea navy.
The Ministry of Transport pledged on Thursday to improve its response to bad weather, ministry spokesman He Jianzhong told a news conference.
Frontier soldiers brave a snowstorm and temperatures as low as -20 C as they patrol the western part of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region on horseback on Wednesday.