As much of the world watched the dramatic rescue of trapped miners in Chile, some in China wondered whether their country would have gone to such lengths.
In 2008, the world cast its eyes on Beijing, the sprawling Chinese metropolis that was set to play host to the Summer Olympics.
In the fall of 2007, VBS went to Linfen, China to look at the worlds most polluted city. Go to VBS.TV for more.
The death toll in a flooded mine in northern China has risen to 12, and crews were working to rescue 26 miners who remain trapped, state media reported on Thursday.
Five trapped workers were found dead Tuesday in northern China more than a week after their coal mine was flooded by a rush of underground water, state media reported.
Some 153 people were trapped in a Chinese coal mine after it was flooded, state-run media reported.
Last week, hiking through the ancient forts of the Great Wall was an unlikely figure: Stephon Marbury, the latest, and perhaps the most enigmatic, NBA refugee to bring his game to China.
On the road into Linfen, the cars seem to disappear into dense smog that clings to vanishing buildings.
Inside Linfen, once named the world's most polluted city, Chinese officials say they are closing down some polluters.
Chinese officials blamed poor management and inadequate precautions for an explosion at a mine that killed 104 people, state-run media said Monday.
Heavy snow in northern and central China has killed 21 people since Monday, the country's Ministry of Civil Affairs said Friday, according to state-run media.
CNN's John Vause explains why some people are wondering if Beijing's heavy snowfall was man induced.
A bus trip intended to reward customers of a health-care products company turned deadly when the vehicle plunged off a road in China's northern Shanxi province, killing 13 people, according to state-run Xinhua news agency.
Eight days after they were trapped in an underground mine in northwest China, three coal mine workers were rescued early Sunday, state media said.
His father and uncle fall to the ground, crying uncontrollably. After 11 years of not knowing, relief of finding a child they thought had been lost forever pours out of them.
John Vause reports on the emotional reaction of a father and uncle to the return of a long lost son in China.
Three people were missing early Tuesday after a coal mine gas blast in China's Shanxi province killed at least 11 people, China's state run news agency reported.
Dozens are dead in a coal mine gas blast in north China's Shanxi Province.
The death toll from a coal mine blast in northern China climbed Sunday to 74, the state-run media Xinhua News Agency said.
The country's impoverished farmers are the latest casualties as China's dairy sales plummet
The governor of Shanxi Province in northern China resigned Sunday in the wake of a mud and rock slide that has killed at least 254 people, state-run media reported.
Dozens of people are dead after a mud and rock slide caused a warehouse in north China to collapse. (No audio)
The death toll from a mud and rock slide that occured at an unlicensed mine last week in northern China has risen to 254 as rescue workers continue to recover more bodies, state-run media said Sunday.
Authorities have detained 13 people after a mud and rock slide that may have killed several hundred people in northern China, state-run media reported.
A coal mine collapse in northeastern China killed at least 21 miners, the second fatal incident in less than a week, state-run media reported.
A landslide in northern China buried a brick factory Saturday, killing 19
The official death toll from the China earthquake stood at 12,012 on Wednesday afternoon, but it is expected to rise as soldiers and rescue crews pull more bodies from crumbled buildings at the epicenter in Sichuan province.
China announces an increase in its defense budget for 2008. CNN's John Vause reports.
With the weather showing little sign of improving, thousands of Chinese remain stranded and many are without power
Rescue teams on Friday recovered more bodies following a powerful gas explosion at the Xinyao Coal Mine in northern China's Shanxi province, bringing the death toll 105, according to China's state-run Xinhua news agency.
Rescue work continued as the number of dead in a massive gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China continues to rise.
A powerful gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China's Shanxi province killed at least 46 people and left at least 50 others trapped early Thursday, local safety officials said, according to China's Xinhua news agency.
Gross economic inequality is one of the biggest problems threatening China's stability, and an issue President Hu Jintao has taken up as a cornerstone of his administration. In major speeches and policy addresses he has called for the creation of a "harmonious society," signaling the central government's desire to reduce the gap between the wealthy Chinese elite and the working class, who have seen far fewer benefits from the country's torrid economic growth.
The wave of Internet-fueled criticism over atrocious labor practices could mark a milestone how grassroots protests affect the country's leaders
An explosion in a villager's home in northern China's Shanxi province has killed at least 43 people and injured another 28.
The estimated number of workers missing in a flooded Chinese coal mine was expected to rise to 57, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Monday.
Water flooded a coal mine in northern China Friday, trapping 44 of the miners underground, according to China's official news agency Xinhua.
Most people looking out across the sky of a large city are aware that breathing in that hazy, gritty cocktail of suspended pollutants simply cannot be good for the health.
Twenty schoolchildren were among a larger number of victims killed in northern China when explosives stored in the home of a coal mine manager in Shanxi Province detonated, state-run media reports.
A billion-dollar steel mill isn't easily swept under the rug. But give the Chinese city of Changzhou credit for trying.
Thirty-seven coal miners are missing and feared dead after a gas explosion in a mine in the northeastern city of Jixi, city officials told state-run Chinese media.
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