China’s leader Xi Jinping wants the recent spree of mass killings that shocked the country not to happen again.

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There have been at least 20 such attacks in China this year, with a death toll of more than 90 people. Government officials have called these incidents “isolated” and offered explanations emphasizing individual motivations: the driver in the Zhuhai car attack was unhappy with his divorce settlement,

The city’s top security chief is the latest to depart but the moves have not been officially linked with the incident that claimed 35 lives.

China has unveiled three new aircraft, including two potential sixth-generation fighters, during a strategic reveal on Boxing Day. This move cements China's position ahead of global competitors like the USA,

In the past few years, Xi’s forces have rounded up around a million Uyghurs and placed them in detention camps, and enforced a policy of re-education and intensive surveillance which has drawn international criticism for its tactics and authoritarianism.

BEIJING (Reuters) -- The driver who rammed his car into a crowd in southern China's Zhuhai city has been sentenced to death, China's official Xinhua News Agency reported on Friday. The attack, which took place on Nov. 11, killed at least 35 people and injured 43. It's one of the deadliest attacks in contemporary Chinese history.

Chinese authorities seek to stop a spate of indiscriminate mass attacks after videos were widely shared on Chinese social media.

A Chinese court has issued a suspended death sentence to a man who rammed his car into crowds outside a primary school in southern China last month, injuring more than two dozen people in one of several violent attacks that has recently rattled the country and prompted officials to ramp up security measures.

On the 11th of that month, a 62-year-old man ploughed a car into people exercising outside a stadium in the city of Zhuhai, killing at least 35. Police said that the driver had been unhappy with his divorce settlement. He was sentenced to death this week.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed support for the country’s vulnerable elderly and youth in a new year address that acknowledged the strains on some of the 1.4bn-strong population. Xi’s speech comes after his economic planners have for much of the past four years struggled to restore consumer confidence or address rising youth unemployment and slow wage growth.