Briefings from Jiangsu

Suzhou National Orchestra Premiers New Work during Shanghai Festival

Part of the Shanghai International Arts Festival, the work, “Jiangnan”, conducted by Peng Jiapeng, was performed 4 November at the Shanghai Symphony Hall....

Nanjing Metro Line 5 to Start Trial Operations in Jiangning, 3 Years Late

Complex geology and cultural heritage sites led to Line 5 being delayed; its route revised after construction had already began. Trial operation expected...

Viral Video Shows Xuzhou Doctor Searching Patient’s Condition Online

The doctor's lack of experience and unprofessionalism is being called in to question after the consultation at a community-level medical institution in Quanshan...

National Equestrian Jumping Championships Concludes in Nanjing

At the Nanjing Jinling Mahui International Equestrian Club in Tangshan, 29 October saw Shandong win the individual championship and Guangdong the team title....

China’s Biggest Pure Electric Container Ship Completes Sea Trials in Yangzhou 

The 10,000-tonne N997 can carry 700 TEU and has the largest deadweight tonnage and battery capacity in China’s shipbuilding industry; 50,000 kWh. Full...

40th Antarctic Expedition Team Departs to Build Pacific Facing Base

The 36,000-tonne, ice-class “Tianhui”, left Zhangjiagang on 1 November with construction materials to meet with the "Xuelong" and "Xuelong 2” and head south....

Lianyungang County Eliminates Stubble Burning to Turn it into Treasure

Seniors in Guannan County are working in over 20 cooperatives which have automated straw acquisition into bales with uses including feeding power stations....

Environment High on Agenda at 5th China-US Sister Cities Conference

During the Conference held Suzhou’s Kunshan on 3 November, a delegation of 19 US mayors from the 284 USA-China sister cities visited Gupinggang...

Zhenjiang Tests Emergency Anchoring of Capesize Ship

The Hong Kong-registered Capesize carrier “Hermina” sailed out of the Daxinwei anchorage in Zhenjiang on 26 October with 74,000 tonnes of iron ore...

Nanjing Massacre Exhibition Opens in Budapest, Hungary; Ex P.M. Visits

Opened 30 October in the Museum of Ethnography, the exhibition also displays a number of photos taken by Hungarian war correspondent, Robert Capa. Full story...

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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