Freshly pressed suits, eager handshakes and a room that filled faster than expected; Suzhou on 28 May looked very much like a city that believes the United Kingdom is worth doing business with again, and in growing numbers too.
新鲜熨烫的西装，急切的握手和比预期更快地填满的房间；5月28日的苏州看起来非常像一个相信英国值得再次做生意的城市，而且人数也越来越多。
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Silky soft by habit and polished by design, Suzhou is slipping into something more diplomatic this week. With the APEC trade ministers’ meeting arriving on 22 and 23 May, the city has begun looking less like itself and more...
Sunday evening in Suzhou brought flags, noise and a very one-sided final. By the end of the AFC U-17 Women’s Asian Cup, DPR Korea had beaten Japan 5-1; too strong, too sharp and, for long stretches, too quick for...
Somewhere in inland China, a place once known as “一群猪” (Yi Qun Zhu; A Herd of Pigs) has become “一碗水” (Yi Wan Shui; A Bowl of Water). Elsewhere, uglier names are being scrubbed away too; and a lively argument...
Somewhere along a quiet lane by Changzhou’s old canal, a man who changed the sound of modern China still sits in the half-light. His former home is full of memory, sorrow and wit; yet the world he helped pronounce...
Shanghai’s loss is about to be Suzhou’s gain, as the world’s number 1 soft drink maker is setting about moving its biggest eastern China production plant out of the big smoke after almost 40 years.
上海的损失即将成为苏州的收益，因为这家全球第一大软饮料制造商正着手将其华东地区最大的生产工厂从近 40 年后的浓烟中搬出。
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