Briefings from Jiangsu

Changzhou’s 1st BRT Smart Station Opens; Like Getting on the Metro!

The automated stop, located at Liaohe Lu / Changjiang Lu, accepts payment by smart phone and offers an intercom service for passengers with...

Flamingo Population in Yancheng this Year is Largest in History!

Experts speculate that several of the 14 flamingos to have made the Yancheng wetlands their temporary home are returnees, happy with the local...

Suqian Ramps up Care System as Seniors make up 20.3% of Population

Senior care institutions from first tier cities are being lured to Suqian through financial incentives and policy support to also provide integrated medical...

Wuxi’s Iron Fisted Pollution Control; Algae in Lake Tai Lowest in 16 Years

Since 2007, Wuxi has salvaged a total of 540,000 tonnes of blue algae in Lake Tai, with the cumulative area of ​​cyanobacteria down...

New Link out of Nanjing South Railway Station Speeds Traffic Southward

Opened on 30 November, Ludu Da Dao completes the “four vertical” network in the area south of the Station; now go Nanjing South...

Firefighters Rescue 5 Injured over 2 Days on Mountain in Suzhou

“Despair Slope” on Dayang Mountain in Suzhou High-tech Zone is appropriately named; the separate incidents included a 14-year old boy and a 52-year...

Xuzhou Medics Take Blood Sample with another’s Blood Still on their Gloves

The 27 November incident occurred at the Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University. Penalties are expected but reporters’ inquiries are going unanswered. Full...

Henry Kissinger Mourned; Gave Exclusive to Local Reporter 16 Years Ago

The 100-year old had visited China over 100 times, including on 23 June, 2007, to the Hopkins-Nanjing Centre, granting the Yangtze Evening News...

Pigmentation all over Body is Result of Ancestral Secret Potion for Epilepsy

The patient, a Mr. Zhang, visited Suzhou Xiangcheng District Dermatology Hospital with extreme hyperkeratosis that was the result of taking the folk recipe...

Nanjing Takeout Riders Join “Safety Watch Points” to Protect Peace

40 riders, as representatives from Meituan, Eleme, SF Express and Cainiao, signed up on 29 November for the important component of grassroots social...

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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