Beijing - Local courts in Shanxi and Hebei provinces in North China convicted and sentenced 14 people on Friday for producing or selling tainted milk powder.

Among the 14 involved in four tainted-milk cases, two received life imprisonment, four received sentences of 10 to 15 years in prison, while the rest received lighter sentences.

The Intermediate People's Court in Jinzhong city of Shanxi province sentenced Li Baosheng to life imprisonment, and confiscated all his personal properties, for blending melamine-tainted milk powder into his own products.