Briefings from Jiangsu

5th Grand Canal Cultural Tourism Expo Comes to Suzhou from 21-24 September

A total of 37 cities and more than 600 cultural-tourism enterprises and institutions from eight provinces along the Grand Canal have been invited...

China Elite 10K Run Comes to Lishui in Nanjing on 10 September

Traffic control will be implemented on Qinhuai Avenue, Wuxiangshan Avenue, Zhiyuan Lu and surrounding roads, with the competition section closed to vehicles. Full...

United Nations’ Reps Expected to Attend World Coastal Forum in Yancheng

With the theme of “Green and low-carbon development and shared ecological coastal areas”, the Forum’s sophomore outing shall be held from 25-27 September....

Woman in Changzhou gets Successful Operation for 1,000+ Lumps in Abdomen 

The woman, found to have a huge pelvic mass with a maximum diameter of 22 cm, had contracted the extremely rare Disseminated Peritoneal...

Boy Cycles 1,054KM from Hunan Province to Enrol at Yangzhou University

Wei Zhixiang spent 12 days cycling from Zhuzhou through the four provinces of Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui and Jiangsu to successfully register at Yangzhou...

Black-tailed Godwits’ Arrival in Yangzhou Signify Start of Annual Migration

The best bird watching season is upon us. Closed to fishing, Yangzhou’s Gaoyou Lake and Shaobo Lake have in recent years become hot...

Nanjing Uni Freshers Use MBTI as Self Introductions and Friend Finders

Registering for the new academic year on 2 September, the freshers at “Nanda” have made their Myers–Briggs Type Indicators in to a from...

World’s Biggest Bridge between Taizhou & Changzhou gets 1st Steel Trusses 

2 September saw the first pair of cantilevered steel trusses raised to the Changtai Yangtze River Bridge that will be the world’s largest...

Record High! 30 Suzhou Listed Companies Put ¥100+ Million in to R&D in 23H1

The 213 listed companies in Suzhou put a total of ¥14.454 billion in to R&D, top among which was Hengtong Optoelectronics, with an...

Moon & Mariana Trench Not Far enough for Wuxi Scientific Research Institutes

With the Striver deep-sea submersible as its flagship, Binhu District held a conference on 29 August calling for an even more “phenomenal institute...

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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