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WeChat and Alipay Battle for Contactless in Europe and USA

Travel abroad now and you may not even need take your credit card out of your wallet, for third party payment giants Alipay and WeChat have infiltrated and are now head to head in the western world. ...

Island “Green Road” Opens in Jiangxinzhou, Nanjing

China’s first island "green road" has opened at Nanjing’s Jiangxinzhou, an island in the Yangtze River. The 140-kilometer road circles the whole island and connects to the island’s Jiangdi, Linyin and Binhe roads. The road is...

Missing Chinese Scholar’s Accused Kidnapper Charged

This week on 14 July, a federal grand jury has charged Mr. Brendt Christensen for the kidnap of Chinese research scholar Ms. Zhang Yingying. Christensen’s lawyers have argued he had “no criminal history” and that he...

Journalists Enjoy World’s Largest Lotus Pond in Early Morning

A group of media staff from all over the country visited Yaoxi Lotus Pond in Guangchang of Jiangxi province, on the early morning of July 11. The giant lotus pond, occupying an area of 10,000 mu (about 667 hectares),...

Kidnapped Chinese Student Feared Dead in Illinois

Missing Chinese scholar Zhang Yingying is believed by the FBI to be dead in the US state of Illinois. 27-year-old teaching assistant Brendt A. Christensen has been arrested on the grounds of kidnapping and is due to appear in...

“Mini” Fire Engines Put into Use in Nanjing

Eight small-sized multifunctional fire engines entered service in Nanjing on June 26. Equipped with firefighting devices such as high-pressure sprinkler, this kind of small-sized electric motor-driven fire engine can effectively solve the fire fighting problems in...

Wuxi-Made Supercomputer Retains its Throne as World’s Fastest

China's most notable supercomputer Sunway Taihu Light, housed at its east city Wuxi's National Supercomputer Center, has claimed top spot on a list of the world's fastest and most powerful computers for the third straight time. ISC High Performance, an...

30,000 Ming Dynasty bricks found in Nanjing

Around 30,000 bricks from the Ming Dynasty were found at a two km section of wall of Nanjing Electric (Group) Co., Ltd. at the foot of Badoushan Mountain in Qixia District of Nanjing on June 12. ...

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Nanjing Goes Negative as Suzhou Surges in China’s Trade Shuffle

Nanjing has found itself in the wrong column of China’s latest foreign trade rankings. While most major cities grew...

From Suzhou to Liverpool by Bike, One Student Makes the Link Real

Student Luke Rimmer left Suzhou on Tuesday with a bicycle, a ridiculous distance ahead of him and, by his...

Nanjing North Tops Out, but Jiangbei Still Wants Its Metro

Today’s last concrete pour at Nanjing North Railway Station felt like one of those construction moments that actually means...

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