Briefings from Jiangsu

Briefings from Jiangsu

Milestone Made for Holidays but No Time off in Construction of Xuzhou Bypass

Construction for the first diaphragm of the ¥6-billion Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal Bridge on the Xuzhou East Bypass Expressway is complete but work carries...
Briefings from Jiangsu

All Primary & Secondary Schools in Downtown Taizhou Receive AEDs

A vice mayor attended the ceremony donating 125 AED devices from the Red Cross Society and several SOEs on 27 September in Taizhou...
Briefings from Jiangsu

1st Master of Traditional Chinese Medicine Passes Away in Nanjing

Professor Zhou Zhongying passed in Nanjing at 05:20 on 2 October. A TCM innovator and representative of the 7th National People’s Congress, he...
Briefings from Jiangsu

Patriotic Drones Write “Long Live the Motherland” in Wuxi’s Evening Sky

The drone show was part of the holiday display and activities on offer at the recently-completed, ¥750-million Xidong Jiuli Cangqing Cultural Tourism District....
Briefings from Jiangsu

Nanjing University Reveals Origin of Earth’s Early Continental Crust

Professors from the Uni’s School of Earth Sciences & Engineering collaborated with Professor Simon Wilde from Curtin University in Perth, Australia, for their...
Briefings from Jiangsu

Queues form at 06:00 in Suzhou; “Eat National Day Noodles Together”

Endless streams of customers for Su-Style Noodles were seen at famous noodle houses on 1 October; the Zhangjiagang Shazhou Hotel sold 900 bowls...
Briefings from Jiangsu

3.197 Million People Take Nanjing Metro on National Day 2023

The Nanjing Metro was busier than normal, but not excessively. Most travelled was Line 1, with 832,000 journeys. The network usually sees 2.5-2.7...
Briefings from Jiangsu

It’s Gold & Bronze for Jiangsu in Men’s Long Jump at Asian Games

Wang Jia’nan and Shi Yuhao, both with the Training Centre of the Jiangsu Provincial Sports Bureau, took the medals with jumps of 8.22...
Briefings from Jiangsu

Free Public Transport in Changzhou for Ticket Holding Tourists during Holiday

Those with hotel bookings, tickets to scenic spots or concerts, or air or train tickets to Changzhou itself can acquire a QR code...
Briefings from Jiangsu

Up 238%! 2.494 Million Tourists incoming to Nanjing on National Day

The increase was also 12.8 percent up on 2019. Top spots visited were the City’s two 5A sites; the Confucius Temple-Qinhuai Scenic Belt...
1...242243244...342Page 243 of 342

Local Reviews

Matt Ford -

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...
Frank Hossack -

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...
Frank Hossack -

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...
Frank Hossack -

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...
Frank Hossack -

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,...

More from around Jiangsu