Briefings from Jiangsu

Wear Hanfu or Ethnic Minority Costumes to Ride Suzhou Metro for Free

From 9 to 17 February, passengers wearing full the traditional costumes can enter Suzhou Rail Transit stations for free. Staff will confirm and...

Nanjing Woman Takes 6 Years Making Origami Dragon with Thousands of Scales

Without a single cut, Huang Xiaoxian took a 3 metre square piece of gold backed paper as the material for her dragon. She...

40 Years of Reform Charted by Xuzhou Writer in “The Railway Triology”

From the railway police department to the railway television station, Yang Hongjun gradually fell in love with his profession but did not give...

New Property Prices in Free Fall in Nantong; Down to ¥6,250 per Square Metre

A 90 square metre apartment in the Zhongnan Century Yunchen Residential Community was priced at approximately ¥14,500/sqm at launch. The worth of the...

Wuxi Implements Fast Track Service for High Speed Train Boarding

The entry channel on the far right at Wuxi Railway Station has been transformed in to a “small baggage channel” (or no baggage),...

High Schooler Hits “Emergency Stop” after Woman Falls Down Nanjing Metro Escalator

Wang Chenning, who fortunately pays attention to signage on the metro reacted quickly as soon as the woman fell backwards down the escalator...

¥176 Million Raised Helps 1.5 Million Women and Children in Jiangsu in 2023

The Jiangsu Women and Children Welfare Foundation reported its income on 31 January, with the funds representing an increase of 7.89 percent over...

11cm Tumour in Woman’s Mediastinum; Nanjing Medical University Steps in

With large blood vessels located behind the tumour, surgeons used an ultrasonic scalpel to separate them. 2 hours later, they had removed the...

Taizhou Builds Country’s 1st Highway Biodiversity Observation Station

The Jianxing Expressway Biodiversity (Bird) Observation Station in Xinghua City will strengthen biodiversity protection and carry out targeted ecological redress during highway construction....

Huai’an Police Remind: No Hairspray in Cans over 120ML Permitted on Trains

Officers have been on patrol in Huai’an’s two main railway stations, reminding passengers as to that which cannot be taken on trains while...

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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