A Shanghai resident recently gave some money to a blind and physically handicapped beggar on line No 4 of the city's metro, only to realize the next day the man wasn't handicapped at all.
Some 830 bird perches have been erected on the grasslands in Tanggulashan town to attract hawks, which in turn can kill the rats that infest the Yangtze River source region.
A courageous man saved some 30 people from a burning bus after breaking the vehicle's window in Guizhou last Thursday.
An 80-year-old man has voluntarily lit candles to light up a dark railway culvert in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province, for the last three months.
A 21-year-old man and his 19-year-old girlfriend sold their illegitimate son for 2,500 yuan ($366) and bought a flashy mobile phone with that amount in Chongqing municipality.
A resident of Liuyang, Hunan province, who had been in coma for four months regained consciousness on his 58th birthday last week.
A man arrested for the murder of two people last week told the police he committed the crime so that he could be sentenced to death.
A resident of Dalian, Liaoning province, tied the knot with a woman he met one year ago, when he recharged her cell phone with 100 yuan ($14.65) by mistake.
Some college students in Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi province, are making an extra buck playing "Happy Farm", a widely popular online game in the country, for other people.
A student's ring finger was ripped off her left hand while she was playing a game of tug-of-war with her friends in Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, last Friday.
A resident of Haikou, capital of Hainan province, had to pay more than 50,000 yuan ($7,324) in fines for 231 traffic violations last week.
A resident of Ningjin county in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, slept on the streets with his 1-year-old son in the biting cold after a quarrel with his wife last Tuesday.