Briefings from Jiangsu

Suzhou gets City’s 1st Ever “Zero Carbon 5A Grade Office Building”

Saving 2,674 tonnes of carbon emissions annually, the GCL Plaza uses digital-energy management to monitor the consumption of various equipment in real time....

Fukushima Discharges Prompt Nanjing Hospital to Drill Radioactive Spill

The drill simulated the spill of 131 litres of contaminated liquid in the Radiology Department of Jiangsu Provincial People’s Hospital and its nurses’...

UFO Sighted up and down China’s Eastern Seaboard as NASA Comes Clean

Just before NASA revealed its findings of a UFO report, people in Jiangsu, Shandong, Tianjin and Beijing claimed to have seen a UFO...

Mother & Baby Saved from Drowning by Yangzhou City Administrator

Sun Guogen, with the City’s beautification dept., wasted no time in throwing down his mobile phone and keys to jump into the water...

National Geographic Opens Outdoor Shop in Nanjing’s Deji Plaza; Expensive!

DJs and coffee were the hallmarks of the recent opening of National Geographic Apparel in Nanjing, the South Korean owned first such store...

Yangtai Airport Launches Flights to Seoul & City Bordering North Korea

On 13 September, China Southern Airlines commenced a Guangzhou-Yangtai-Dandong flight, while two flights per week to Seoul are to begin 27 September. Full...

What are the Odds?! Foreigner Loses Passport in Zhenjiang but gets it Back!

The student at Jiangsu University of Science and Technology praised Zhenjiang as “warm” after police used surveillance camera footage to track the taxi...

1st 100-metre Ultra Long Wind Turbine Blade Transport Ship Departs Yangzhou

11 September saw the “Haiyun 8” ship, loaded with six 111-metre long wind turbine blades, each weighing 46 tonnes, depart the no. 3...

National Short Film Competition Won by Nanjing Junior High School Student

Shen Juncheng, in Grade 3 of Nanjing Zhonghua Middle School, wrote, directed and acted in his production, “The Lost One”. 5,000 entries were...

6 Year Old Girl from Huai’an Smashes Rubik Cube World Record; 5.97 Seconds

Cao Qixian triumphed on 9 September in Singapore at the WCA Rubik's Cube International Open, becoming the first Chinese player to break the...

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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