Briefings from Jiangsu

Entire Yangtze River Delta Now Covered by 144 Hour Transit Visa Free Policy

The 6 day transit visa-free policy for foreigners was among 10 new initiatives revealed at the Yangtze River Delta Integrated Development High-level Forum...

Wuxi Launches Flood Control As Water Levels Expected to Exceed Red Warning Levels

Wuxi expects precipitation during the main flood season this year to be 20-50 percent higher than usual. Drills conducted simulated extensive delays to...

Taiwanese in Suqian Celebrate Dragon Boat Festival a Week Early

Love Theme Park in Yanghe New District was venue for nearly 130 Taiwanese compatriots to join the first Jiangsu-Taiwan Neighbourhood Festival’s opening ceremony...

Taizhou Mayor Uses Environment Day as Basis for Pollution Investigations

Among her investigations, Wan Wenhua looked in to the Sino-Danish soil and groundwater pollution control/restoration demonstration project that is the first such project...

Yancheng Girl Picks up Bird S***; Published in Top Environmental Science Journal

Jiang Huimin, an undergraduate girl from the School of Marine and Bioengineering of Yancheng Institute of Technology, founded the research paper in her...

Nanjing ¥10 Coffee Auntie Sensation actually uses Nescafé Instant for her Internet Craze

The exposé came about amid claims that Han Suzhen was also infringing copyright in her use of packaging for her so called “hand-brewed...

Suzhou Metro Line 6 Accepted as Ready; Tests around the Corner

14 industry experts from other cities inspected all aspects of Line 6 between 2 and 4 June to unanimously accept its completion, readying...

Sentenced on Environment Day for Dumping 23,000 Tonnes of Garbage in Zhenjiang

Zhenjiang Beigushan Environmental Resources Court handed down 4 years in prison and a ¥300,000 fine, and 3 years in prison and a ¥40,000...

Small Fishing Village in Taizhou becomes Producer of World’s Top Anchor Chains

Media is now touting the success story of Yaxing Anchor Chain Factory that became the largest mooring chain production base in Asia in...

World’s 1st Lithium Solid State Battery Mass Production Line Lands in Changzhou 

INX Tech is investing ¥3 billion in the facility in Changzhou Jintan Economic Development Zone. With construction to begin in September, upon completion,...

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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