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1st Ever Kunshan Athlete to Win Olympic Medal Takes Bronze in Hammer Throw

Zhao Jie won her medal with a throw of 74.27 metres in the Paris Games on 6 August. As a schoolchild, when her academic grades fell behind, her parents asked her to stop her sports training, but she still...

90 American Teachers & Students Join Exchange Camp at Duke Kunshan University

The Collegiate Immersion Bootcamp for eight American universities, including Duke University, Brigham Young University and Columbia University, is to carry out a variety of visits and exchanges in Nanjing, Wuxi, Suzhou and elsewhere. Full story (in Chinese) via this...

Airportless Suzhou gets IATA Airport Code for “Virtual” Flights to/from Shanghai

A year on from the launch of the the Suzhou City Terminal for Shanghai’s two main airports, Suzhou Industrial Park recently took to X to announce the designation of SZO as its airport code by the International Air Transport...

Entire Shanghai-Suzhou-Huzhou High Speed Line Complete; Static Tests to Begin

On 30 July, the final section of contact wire was hoisted to the last of 7,237 pillars which had been assembled in 525 days, over a total length of 591 kilometres. The Line is also known as a Lake...

New Exhibition of 2,500 Year Old Ancient Chinese Artefacts Opens in Suzhou

Now on in the Suzhou Museum, the exhibition “Luoyang and Suzhou in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty” focuses on the era’s reform and innovation. Chariots, daggers, bronze chimes, pottery, lacquerwork, jade and much more on display until 17 October. Full...

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