The largest collection of complete dinosaur footprint fossils ever found in Asia has been discovered in the Liujiaxia Gorge in Yongding county, the reports. The site, located 80 kilometres west of Lanzhou , contains the prints of 10 different species of dinosaurs.

An estimated 130,000 Dingxi residents have left for Xinjiang Autonomous Region in recent weeks to help with the annual cotton harvest, the reports. Xinjiang's cotton harvest starts in August and lasts until late October.

A Heilongjiang couple have been detained after a scuffle with a pregnant Shenzhen shop owner that caused her to miscarry. Police said the 36-year-old victim was kicked in the stomach in a dispute over an iPad. The couple claim they had left it in the shop earlier in the week. It was unclear whether one or both of the suspects - a 25-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman - were accused of doing the kicking.

An articulated truck's brake failure is being blamed for a multi-car collision that killed seven and injured three early yesterday morning on the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macau Expressway in Shaoguan . The truck hit six cars and another two trucks after its brakes failed, a preliminary investigation found.

The Guilin city government will invest nearly five billion yuan (HK$6.1 billion) to increase wind power capacity under the province's 12th five-year plan. Plans call for two 2.5 billion yuan projects in Quanzhou county and Gongcheng Yao Autonomous County.

A 75-year-old man dragged a wooden cart carrying his 64-year-old wife through the streets for three hours on Thursday to mark the couple's 45th wedding anniversary. Earlier in the day, the pair had reaffirmed their vows in a formal ceremony.

Shijiazhuang city has invested 150 million yuan (HK$183 million) to build and repair 28 boarding schools and improve pupil safety in six impoverished rural areas, the reports. The city government plans to relocate 240,000 rural pupils by the end of the year, in a nationwide push to provide more living quarters at rural schools.

Hubei province will assign 50,000 food safety supervisors to monitor big dining events this year due to concerns about poor cooking practices, the reports. Public events in which neighbourhoods dine together, such as weddings and funerals, have been the source of frequent food safety incidents over the years, especially in rural areas.

A painter from a village near Nanjing has finished a faithful, 4.5-metre-long reproduction of the famous panoramic painting from the Song dynasty (960-1279), the reports. The painting, which took 100 days to copy, depicts daily life in the prosperous Song capital Bianjing, now known as Kaifeng .

First-year pupils at Pukou Foreign Language Middle School were given a special assignment for the holiday week: building a better relationship with their parents, Xinhua reports. Teachers suggested that pupils and their parents spend a half hour after supper each day reading poems, learning revolutionary songs, talking about newspaper articles or discussing ideas.

The Jinan government has announced infrastructure improvements in an effort to shave 20 minutes off the average resident's commute, Xinhua reports. The city's latest three-year traffic management plan calls for more bus stations and new bicycle lanes. The city's average commute was 50 minutes in 2009.

Overseas Chinese have been responsible for about 60 per cent of the foreign direct investment received by the province in the past 50 years, the reports. Figures from the Returned Overseas Chinese Federation show Chinese living abroad have also donated a total of 1.6 billion yuan to the province during that period.

Shanghai drivers will be charged reduced tolls of five yuan for two hours after the country's week-long toll amnesty comes to an end at midnight on Monday morning, the reports. Normal tolls will resume after 2am. The Shanghai Yangtze River Tunnel and Donghai Bridge are excluded from the two-hour "buffering" window.

A 22-year-old Hangzhou woman who attempted to commit suicide by jumping into the Qiantang River was rescued just two hours before the river's largest tidal bore of the year arrived on Tuesday, the reports. The woman was reportedly distraught over her love life.

The Zhejiang Supreme Court has vowed to crack down on the sale of substandard food and medicines online, Xinhua reports. The court also warned that the express delivery industry has become a major avenue for distributing poor-quality food and drugs. The provincial public security bureau has detained 3,527 suspects in 1,902 food and drug safety cases since January, official figures reveal.