A man in north China's Shanxi Province has been sentenced to a reprieved death penalty for illegally storing dynamite in a hospital, where the explosives killed 35 people and injured dozens of others in a blast last year.

The man, Wang Jinsheng, a private mine operator and administrator of the hospital, received a death sentence with a two-year reprieve on Friday by the Intermediate People's Court of Xinzhou City, which convicted him of illegally trading, transporting and storing 11,466 kilograms of dynamite and 27,320 detonators.

The probation was given for his surrender to police after the blast, the court said. Six others got jail terms ranging from two to 12 years.

Wang placed 3,700 kilograms of dynamite and 10,000 detonators in a garage of the Staff Hospital affiliated with the Xuangang Coal and Electricity Company in Yuanping City on March 28 last year.

The stored dynamite exploded on April 10, which flattened a two-story building and six small houses nearby.