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China’s Brain Banks Need Donors as Human Tissue Reveals Dementia Clues

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China’s human brain banks are still struggling to attract donors more than a decade after the first facilities opened, according to neuroscientist Duan Shumin. The shortage is becoming more urgent as researchers find that dementia is often more complicated...
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Hezhou; an Ancient County Seat and China’s Capital of Heavy Calcium

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Today's ancient administrative centre in Hezhou, Linhe, became a county seat in 111 BCE and remained a seat of local government until 1952, and today the city grinds marble into about 20 million tonnes of heavy calcium powder a...
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Hechi; the Karst City that Grows More Silkworm Cocoons than Any Other

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Hechi grows more silkworm cocoons than any other prefecture-level city in China, has 65 percent of its land covered by karst and produced 1.016 million tonnes of fruit in 2024. Its highest mountain is called Nameless Peak. 河池的蚕茧产量居全国地级市之首,全市百分之六十五的土地是喀斯特地貌,二零二四年水果产量达一百零一点六万吨,而它的最高峰就叫"无名峰"。 Hechi was set...
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Laibin; the City of 2002 that Claims the World’s Indium and a Yao Capital

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Indium is a soft metal used in flat-screen displays, and Laibin calls itself the world's largest indium production base; the city was set up only on 28 December 2002, though its first county dates to 214 BCE. 铟是一种用于平板显示屏的软金属,来宾自称是世界最大的铟生产基地;这座城市二零零二年十二月二十八日才挂牌成立,但它的第一个县早在公元前二一四年就已设立。 The Qin set...
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Chongzuo; the Border City of Sugar, Rock Paintings and a 100,000-Year-Old Jaw

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Chongzuo produces about a fifth of China's sugar, 84 percent of its people are Zhuang, a jawbone from one of its caves is about 100,000 years old, and in 1907 Sun Yat-sen fired a cannon from its border pass. 崇左的蔗糖产量约占全国的五分之一,全市百分之八十四的人口是壮族,城里一处洞穴出土的下颌骨约有十万年历史,一九零七年孙中山还从这里的边关上发过炮。 Chongzuo...
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On this Day in Chinese History; 16 October

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This day, 16 October, in 1964, China successfully detonated its first atomic bomb. That same day, the Chinese government stated its advocation for the complete prohibition and thorough destruction of nuclear weapons; China develops such for defence and to...
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Guilin; the Scenic City whose Famous Praise Lost its Author until 1983

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Wang Zhenggong, a Song official aged 68, wrote "Guilin's scenery is the best under heaven" at a banquet in 1201 for 11 successful candidates in the provincial examination, but the cliff inscription bearing the poem was rediscovered at Duxiu...
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Liuzhou; the Car and Snail-Noodle City with Two Water Scares

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Cadmium from an upstream spill in January 2012 threatened the water supply for Liuzhou's 3 million people, and in June 2025 antimony levels rose after a tailings-site collapse in Rongshui as residents again bought up bottled water. 二零一二年一月,上游的镉污染威胁到柳州三百万人的饮水安全;二零二五年六月,融水一处尾矿区塌陷导致锑浓度异常,市民又一次抢购桶装水。 The Tang writer...
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About Me

Editor-in-Chief of The Nanjinger, Frank Hossack, is a multi-award winning Radio/TV host and voice-over artist who has worked in China for the past 32 years. Frank has also written for Time magazine, the Wall Street Journal and The Times, appeared on the BBC and LBC, and been cited by CNN, China Daily and the New York Times, among many others.
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