The Hukou Waterfall, China's second largest waterfall, located on the border of Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces, are an absolutely spectacular sight in winter to behold. more ›

Xinhua photojournalist Yasser Zhang speaks to Father Zhang Fengming, a Catholic priest in a rural village in Shaanxi Province who is faced with a dwindling, ageing flock. more ›

On Sunday, a woman who, along with her husband, are owed more than 70,000RMB in back pay, climbed a crane at a construction site in a desperate bid for attention to their plight. Though she finally agreed to come down after some negotiations, due to extended exposure to the cold and wind her appendages froze and she found herself unable to move. more ›

Shanghai Daily reports: "Three local officials are among the six men detained for having sex with two teenage girls in Lueyang County, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, according to the police." more ›

There's hope for the 16-25 million trees China fells to produce the 45 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks used across the country each year. Shaanxi has become the first province to ban disposable chopsticks and the new regulations kick in Dec 1. That's just another three days from now. more ›

Last Saturday afternoon on Weining Road (威宁路) in Xi'an, a Caucasian woman lifted a man lying on the street, while using her limited Chinese skills to ask for help from passersby. After she helped the prone stranger get off his feet, she led him to rest inside a small shop, whereupon the owner of the store told her: more ›

So apparently there were two pilots in the F-7 Flying Leopard fighter jet that went down yesterday in the Shaanxi air show. One made it, the other most likely didn't:

One of the two pilots ejected from the cockpit and deployed his parachute. But only one parachute was seen opening, and the plane, a two-seater JH-7 "Flying Leopard" jet, burst into flames as it crashed. more ›

CCTV aired images of this crash at the Shaanxi air show earlier today. The plane is a F-7 Flying Leopard fighter jet that suffered a malfunction during the performance. There are no casualties reported, and you can see the pilot eject and a parachute open (hopefully there was only one pilot, as it is a two-seat plane.) Emergency vehicles responded immediately to the crash, which took place 2 kilometers west of the show grounds, and the air show is now ongoing. more ›

At least that's what Shaanxi farmer Liu Naiying believes about the newborn animal he found in his herd of sheep. Liu recalls how he found the strange baby animal shortly after it was born: "I was herding the sheep, and saw a sheep licking her newborn lamb on the grassland. The lamb was still wet. When I went up close to check on the lamb I was shocked because it looked so weird, like a cross between a sheep and a dog. I was a bit frightened, as I've been raising sheep for 20 years and had never seen such a creature." more ›

That latest school attack in Shaanxi Province? That might have been a result of a property dispute, says Melissa Chan of Al-Jazeera:
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While U.S. and European schools have been haunted by repeated school shootings in the past decade, it seems like a rash of violent attacks is continuing to plague schools around China in recent months. The latest in a series of attacks on Chinese schoolchildren occurred on Tuesday morning in Shaanxi Province’s rural Nanzheng County. Seven children and a teacher were hacked to death and at least 20 children were wounded in an attack on a kindergarten, reports Xinhua. The attacker later killed himself, police officials reported. No further details of the incident have been given so far. more ›

Twenty four provinces and municipalities of China unveiled their plans for the Expo at a meeting yesterday. Now we're sure that each province is going to try and outdo each other, but Shaanxi seems to have already taken the cake: they're building imperial robots! more ›

A family in Shaanxi Province has accused police of beating their 19-year-old son to death while trying to force a murder confession out of him. The son, Xu Gengrong, was held for an eight day interrogation and died shortly afterward in a hospital. more ›

Al-Jazeera takes another look at children, this time at the 150,000 homeless children that the government estimates roams the streets of China. Our hearts are drawn to Wang Pan who wandered the streets alone for a year after his mother was put on death row for murdering his father (while he watched), and Guo Jianhua who himself was once an absent father and is today the founder of an orphanage in Shaanxi province. more ›

Photo courtesy of China Daily. more ›

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CHINESE police have rescued 33 intellectually disabled people forced to work at a building site by slave labour merchants after the apparent suicide of a detainee alerted authorities.

Those of you that were fans of the gritty documentary realism of Li Yang's first feature, Blind Shaft, will probably take an intuitive liking to Blind Mountain for that very reason. Li Yang's use of regular folks--non-actors--always feels like a breath of fresh air, especially after watching movie/pop-star bloated films we've recently watched, such as Lust, Caution and King of California. The story: it's the early 1990s somewhere in bumblefuck northwestern China, and a Bai... more ›