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Yao Ming: “Keep Your Children in Basketball, not Volleyball”

They’re being called the high-altitude bridesmaids, the somewhat inevitable result of marriage between a volleyball and basketball player. Household names both, joined by their contemporaries, it was a society wedding with a sporting theme and some very tall people. Pride...

Heat Stroke Deaths Mount as Temps Top Record Held for 61 Years

Not since 1961 has Jiangsu seen temperatures in mid July this high. In Nanjing, with humidity levels also soaring, the threat of heat stroke is very real indeed. For “multiple organ failure” is a cause of death increasingly common...

USA vs Jiangsu Life Expectancy; Who Lives Longest & Where?

The average life expectancy in Nanjing has exceeded 80 years for the first time. But Nanjingers can’t expect to live longer than anyone else in Jiangsu Province. Those are the main findings from data in the 2020 census recently...

Official! This National Day Holiday was Hottest in History!

Yes, it was a record breaker. The week-long break that was this year’s National Day was the hottest ever. As much of China experienced a heat wave, in our own Nanjing and Jiangsu Province, temperatures rose to their highest...

Why We Have More Cities with Metro Lines than Anywhere in China!

The province of Jiangsu, our home, is also home to the most cities with metro lines in all of China. And if that’s not enough, recent openings together with those on the horizon shall soon also put the province...

China’s Leonardo da Vinci Seeking Daoist Transcendency; Tao Hongjing

Tao Hongjing (陶弘景) was the Daoist Buddhist who invented an elixir which made the body weightless, a protoscientist who taught princes and drew supernatural talismans, known to many as the “Grand Councillor of the Mountains”. 陶弘景(陶弘景)是道教佛教徒,他发明了一种使身体失重的长生不老药,他是一位教王子和绘制超自然护身护身圣的原始科学家,被许多人称为“山区大顾问”。 Born in Nanjing in then...
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Nanjing Could Put Canberra on a New Flight Path to China

Travellers between China and Australia may soon have another part way across the Pacific. Nanjing has emerged as the...

China’s Fertility Insurance Turns Costly IVF Bills into Real Babies

Since 1 January 2025, couples pursuing fertility treatment across China have walked into a rather different kind of appointment....

Shanghai’s 21 Year Metro Fare Freeze Finally Faces a Hearing

Commuters across Shanghai are to see a fare structure tested for the first time in over two decades. On...

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