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China’s Metro Map Grows by Almost 65km Ahead of National Day

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China’s National Day holiday has arrived with three cities adding new metro links. Nanjing, Qingdao and Changchun have opened new lines, extensions or first-phase routes within days of one another, creating almost 65 kilometres of new urban railway just...
Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 3 October

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This day, 3 October, in 2018, China signed the International Agreement to Prevent Unregulated Fishing in the High Seas of the Central Arctic Ocean. The State Council would go on to approve the Agreement, depositing the approval with Canada,...
Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 2 October

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This day, 2 October, in 1949, with a visiting Soviet and Korean delegation in attendance as witness, China in Beijing adopted the “Declaration of China’s Conference to Defend World Peace”, solemnly declaring to the world that the Chinese people...
About Guangdong

Shaoguan; the City that Talked a Missionary Out of His Robes

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Zhaoqing's new viceroy seized Matteo Ricci's mission house in 1589 and expelled him from the city; Ricci relocated to Shaoguan, further up the North River, initially lodging at the Buddhist Guangxiao Temple before establishing a mission beside it. 一五八九年，肇庆新任总督没收了利玛窦的传教驻地，并将他逐出该城；利玛窦随即迁往北江上游的韶州，起初暂住于佛教光孝寺，随后在寺旁建立传教驻地。 The early...
About Guangdong

Shenzhen; the City Named after a Village Irrigation Ditch

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Shenzhen takes its name from the water channels that once crossed the area's farmland; in the local Hakka and Cantonese dialects, the character zhen refers to a ditch or drain cut through the fields. Today, "ditch" as a descriptor...
About Guangdong

Zhuhai; the City that Built a Gate to Contain Macau

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Writing in 1602, a Chinese chronicler recorded Portuguese traders arriving at Haojing in 1553 claiming a storm had soaked their cargo. Asking to dry it ashore; the maritime official Wang Bo accepted a bribe and let them stay. It...
Diplomacy Talks

On this Day in Chinese History; 1 October

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This day, 1 October, in 2020, President Xi Jinping delivered an important speech via video at the High-level Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly commemorating the 25th anniversary of the World Conference on Women in Beijing, comprising a...
About Guangdong

Shantou; the City Where a Typhoon Killed Tens of Thousands

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A typhoon made landfall near Shantou at nine o'clock at night on 2 August 1922, with its lowest recorded pressure at 932 hectopascals and winds reaching around 100 miles an hour; the storm surge that followed breached the region's...
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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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Tasty Solutions on the Menu at Shanghai Climate Week

Shanghai Climate Week coincides with Earth Day and highlights China's dual-carbon commitments. And while its object as also a...
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Nanjing’s International Flights; All Change for Summer Schedule

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