Briefings from Jiangsu

Drone Football Comes to Lianyungang Uniting Technology & Sport! 

The emerging, high-speed sport that combines the competitiveness of football with the excitement and fun of flying drones was highlight of the “Lianyungang...

US$2 Billion Floating Chemical Plant Expects Delivery Next Year out of Nantong

The factory, using world’s only aluminium alloy ultra-low temperature storage tanks which can each hold 47,000 tons of liquefied natural gas at -161.5...

Tomb of Song Dynasty Poet in Zhenjiang Actually only 21 Years Old

Well wishers leaving flowers at the "Tomb of Liu Yong in the Song Dynasty” have often wondered at its crude nature. The official...

“Baby Face Injection” Comes to Wuxi; City Emerges as Beauty Specialist

The lauded Aesthefill collagen stimulator from South Korea was introduced by Wuzhong Meishu to the domestic market on 16 June, having obtained approval...

Child Eats Rat Poison Mistakenly Left on Supermarket Shelf in Lianyungang

Since the rat poison was colourful and left on a plate with stock of oatmeal, the child had thought it was a sample...

10 Year Old Girl Bullied, Strangled & Slapped in Suqian; Clinically Depressed

The girl had enrolled to study and live at Suqian Sankeshu Primary School on account of her volleyball skills. She was diagnosed with...

Nanjing’s T3 Taxi Hailing is Top Nanjing Firm on New List of China Unicorns 

10 companies in Nanjing have made it to the list released by Great Wall Strategic Consulting. Of 375 firms valued at over US$1...

Driverless Karaoke Minibus Takes to Streets of Wuxi; Board Games Included

The bus, named “Sing” and launched on 15 June, runs between Coast City and Gonghu Bay, with each each trip taking 30-40 minutes....

Helicopter Service for Passengers to Land at Suzhou North Railway Station

An investment promotion meeting held on 16 June revealed that Ruohang Industrial Technology Co., Ltd., one of China’s largest general aviation industry groups,...

Is this the Most Beautiful Photo of a Yangtze River Finless Porpoise Ever Taken?

Finless porpoises are in fact difficult to photograph. In a perfect storm of all the variables, Zhu Mingxue took the extraordinary set of...

Local Reviews

Is there a Push to Pull Beer in China?

Serving beer from a hand pump (also known as a beer engine) is a curiously British thing. There are...

Paying Awe Struck Respect to Departed Royalty in Nanjing

Such a contrast could not be starker. On one side of the road; billions of dollars churning away at...

Poor Man’s KFC; is Change in China as Good as a Rest?

Wallace Burger & Chicken was No. 2 on a China Daily Top 10 fast-food list a decade ago. And so...

Names is for Tombstones, Baby! But not Maybe Nanjing’s Top

Initially skeptical of Fennel & Laurel due to its pretentious name, The Nanjinger was pleasantly surprised by exceptional carrot...

Location, Tick; Design, Tick; Attitude, Tick x2; Taste, Ummm…

We’re going to start out by saying, for the record, that you’re not going to like this. That is,...

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