A man in Hefei, capital of Anhui province, was sentenced to eight years in prison and fined 20,000 yuan ($2,900) for using his pregnant wife to deliver drugs. The couple was arrested in May last year after police found more than 300 grams of ketamine - street names, special K or super acid - in their home. A local court sentenced the woman to two years in prison with a three-year reprieve because she needed to breast-feed her baby.
Community correction must be employed when convicted people are allowed to serve sentences outside prison. The process should be overseen by members of the community in which the convicted person resides.
Some consider Huang Qiaoyan to be the Chinese equivalent of the German Brothers Grimm.
About half of the 400 Anhui University freshmen questioned about their teachers' names on their midterm exams were unable to answer.
Heilongjiang Yunda Express awarded 5,000 yuan ($730) to Liu Zhigang on April 17 for his heroism.
The number of Chinese tourists to South Africa surged by 38 percent year-on-year to 117,000 in 2016, according to the South African tourism authority.
He Weiwen believes that despite the previous rhetoric, trade relations between the United States and China could be back on track.
This year, the United Kingdom became the westernmost point in the Belt and Road Initiative's sprawling land-transportation network when a freight train crossed the deserts and mountains of Eurasia on the 12,400-km journey from Yiwu, Zhejiang province, on China's eastern coast, to Barking Station in London.
Barking and Dagenham, one of London's poorest and most neglected boroughs, has found new fame as the most westerly point of China's new Silk Road rail route.
Li Yuzhen started to learn photography when she was 41 years old. The 104-year-old continues to work behind the lens at her photo shop.
Wu Weihong hasn't been affected by the medical reforms implemented in Beijing this month, but the new measures have had a big impact on his 61-year-old mother, who has regular treatment for chronic kidney disease.