The Jieyang municipal government plans to invest 9 million yuan to renovate and repair a long-haul bus station that has remained unused since it was built eight years ago, reports. The Qiyang Bus Station originally cost 28 million yuan, but it was never put into operation after being completed in September 2004, and it has fallen into disrepair. Local authorities plan to finally put it to use.

A minivan driver was killed and two others inside the vehicle were injured when it was hit on the passenger's side by a bus in Zhengzhou on Sunday afternoon, the reports. The roads were slippery and the bus was not carrying any passengers. Witnesses said the driver appeared to be going too fast. The uninjured bus driver said the minivan driver did not use the turn signal when turning in front of the oncoming bus.

More than a dozen disgruntled migrant workers seeking back pay from a Wuhan night club chose to make themselves seen and heard through dance, the reports. The workers gathered outside the club in Dongxihu district on Monday afternoon and performed a dance routine inspired by the popular song by South Korean pop star PSY. They said that about 40 people, including themselves, worked at the club between June and September, but the owners were withholding 233,000 yuan in back pay owed to them.

A deputy director of the finance bureau in Xiangzhou district, Xiangfan , has been suspended from his post pending an investigation, after it was discovered that his son was on the department's payroll but not working there, China News Service reports. The son was hired in July and continued to receive a pay cheque after starting at university in September. An online whistleblower sparked the investigation.

Suzhou police have detained a 29-year-old man who allegedly beat his girlfriend's two-year-old daughter to death for being a bed-wetter, the reports. The man and woman met online and she later entrusted him to look after her daughter. Doctors notified police after seeing bruises on the girl's body. The man confessed to beating the toddler to teach her a lesson.

A woman who agreed to divorce her husband so they would receive more money in a home-relocation programme in 2010 recently discovered he married a younger woman, the reports. The divorced couple had been married more than 10 years, have an eight-year-old son and continued to live together after divorcing. The woman discovered the husband's secret when she saw an intimate text-message exchange between the man and his new wife.

A security guard in Beijing has been accused of raping and robbing a woman on August 30 at her home in Jilin city, the reports. Jilin police said the man raped the woman and then forced her to give him her bank card and password. He was finally tracked back to Beijing.

A 28-year-old woman has been sentenced in Dezhou to life imprisonment for killing her lover's wife by running her over, the reports. The man is a prosecutor in Ningjin county, Dezhou. His 49-year-old wife confronted the mistress on September 15 after learning of the long affair and about the three-year-old boy the mistress had with the man. The wife was run over as the younger woman fled in a car.

Police are searching for a swindler who sold long-haul bus tickets to hundreds of students at a university in Rizhao , then fled with their money, the reports. The tickets appeared similar to ones that students had bought in previous years, but police said that the bus company the man claimed to work for didn't exist. The students gathered for hours where they were supposed to be picked up by the bus, but it never arrived.

Some 40 temporary street stalls authorised to sell fireworks in Shaoxing were auctioned off on Monday, and one fetched 51,000 yuan, Xinhua reports. More than 100 bidders were keen on buying one of the stalls, which do substantial business before and during the Lunar New Year holiday. The starting price for stalls was between 5,000 and 8,500 yuan, but some sold for much more because they are in prime locations.