Briefings from Jiangsu

1st Methanol Dual Fuel Container Ship Built in China Goes on Trial Voyage

The “Eco Maestro”, capable of zero carbon-emission operation and destined for work in the Baltic, undocked and set sail on the Yangtze from...

Jiangsu to Schedule 174.5 Additional Pairs of Trains for Chinese New Year

More trains are being put on for the 2024 Spring Festival travel period, extended post COVID, to last from 26 January to 5...

CYN Festivities Planned in Yancheng Driving Youth as Main Tourism Source

Data released by Ctrip shows the number of non-local tourists in Yancheng increased by 45.2 percent last year, with them coming mainly from...

Lianyungang Holds Training Course for Retired Military to Improve Employability

80 people acquired preliminary employment intentions in the 2023 Winter Adaptability Training Course for Veterans covering safety and confidentiality, psychological adjustment, workplace social...

What’s Going on with Nanjing Metro Opening a Petrol Station?

The station, located on Jingma Lu in Qixia, addresses Nanjing Metro’s inefficient land use and a desire for sustainable non-fare revenue sources. Super...

Xuzhou Awards 25 at “Courage for Justice & Love for Mortals” Conference

Among the awardees on 18 January, a volunteer river patrolman who rescued people trapped in Weishan Lake and a pregnant woman who made...

Wuxi Reports Orders for Chinese New Year Travel up 720% on 2023

Ice and snow tours in the north, and hot-spring escape tours in the south are the majors trend in tourism this Spring Festival,...

2 Friends in Taizhou Drive Home after Drinking; One Reports Other to Police

The men, surnamed Chen and Fan, from Xinghua City, argued during the journey in their drunken state so much so that Chen called...

Hybrid Surgery by Hospital in Changzhou Helps Girl Defeat Rare Brain Tumor

Determined as suffering from parenchymal hemangioblastoma by the Neurosurgery Department of Changzhou Second Hospital, operating on the student was described as “swimming around...

3, 2, 1, Lift off! Nanjing Vocational School 1st in China with Hand in Satellite Launch

Tianzhou-7 successfully lifted off at 22:27 on 17 January; aboard is a popular science satellite developed by Nanjing Electro-mechanical Vocational & Technical College,...

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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