Briefings from Jiangsu

Dancing “Da Ma”! Suzhou Holds Fitness Square Dance Competition

A total of more than 200 people in 12 teams took part in the "Xujiang Cup” in Wuzhong District on 8 August, as...

Nanjing Opens 1st Fresh Hippo Village in Lishui District

A Fresh Hippo Village realises a stable supply relationship between production and Fresh Hippo orders, promoting standardisation, branding and digital agriculture. Full story (in...

¥2.31 Million Lottery Prize Winner Missing from Yancheng

The ticket for the China Welfare Lottery draw on 14 June had been bought at Yancheng High Speed Station. Just 4 days remain...

5 Year Old Boy in Huai’an Swallows 2 Centimetre Long Nail; “Painless”

Imitating the plot of a cartoon, the boy swallowed the nail which became lodged in his duodenum. Huai'an Second People’s Hospital operated successfully....

Right Here, Right Now; Wuxi Holds Integrated Circuit Conference

Underway until 11 August is the 2023 Integrated Circuit (Wuxi) Innovation and Development Conference, with 3,000 guests including leading scholars in attendance. Full...

Xuzhou Summer Crime Crack Down Stops ¥138 Million in Telegraphic Fraud

Xuzhou PSB revealed on 8 August that the campaign realised 191 arrests, the elimination of 10 criminal gangs and the investigation of 124...

14th Yangzhou Games Opens 15 years to the Day after Beijing Olympics

With its opening ceremony held yesterday, 7,000 competitors are taking part in the City’s 14th Municipal Games staged at the Yangzhou Sports Park...

3 Women under Investigation for Climbing on Nanjing Cultural Relic

The solemn atmosphere of Shixiang Lu in the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum was shattered on 7 August by the women climbing on one of...

2020-2023 Organ Donor Report Released by Nanjing Red Cross Society

There are more than 63,000 registered human-organ donors in Nanjing today, while nearly 16,000 people are registered as willing to donate their entire...

Universities in Jiangsu Step up to Offer Aid to Disaster-Stricken Students

As of midday on 5 August, 82 Jiangsu colleges and universities had arranged for 957 students affected by flooding to receive subsidies totalling of ¥797,800. Full...

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,...

More from around Jiangsu