China’s refining giant Sinopec has diverted a supertanker carrying 2 million barrels of crude from its original destination at the Rizhao port in Shandong province following U.S. sanctions on the terminal, according to ship tracking data. The vessel, New Vista, chartered by Sinopec’s trading arm Unipec, was rerouted to Ningbo and Zhoushan for arrival on October 15.

China launched its Gravity-1 carrier rocket from offshore waters near Haiyang, in Shandong Province, on Saturday.

Azerbaijan’s Energy Minister Parviz Shahbazov has embarked on a visit to China at the invitation of National Energy Administration Head Zhang Jianhua.

As many as 11 people have been confirmed dead and 13 others injured after a bus ran into a crowd of students and adults at the gate of a middle school in east China's Shandong Province on Tuesday morning, according to police in Dongping County.