Briefings from Jiangsu

Unqualified Fish Sold by Yonghui Supermarket in Wuxi to be Destroyed

The Wuxi Municipal Market Supervision and Administration Bureau this month carried out random tests on 594 batches of food; 19 were found to...

Suzhou GDP Tanks; Just 4.7% Growth for 23H1 Lags Behind Jiangsu

According to the Jiangsu Provincial Bureau of Statistics, Suzhou’s GDP for 23H1 was ¥1.14584 trillion, an increase of 2.8 percentage points over the...

Huai’an Section of Provincial Highway 264 Sees Final Box Girder Installed

The girder for the super-large bridge across the North Jiangsu Irrigation Canal and the Huaihe River, weighing nearly 110 tonnes, was installed on...

Changzhou Demolition Spree! Modern Industrial Park to Rise from Ashes

The plan is to this year renovate and upgrade over 200 hectares of inefficient industrial parks in the Changzhou Economic & Technological Development...

Maternity Hospital in Xuzhou Evacuated after Fire Breaks out

It took just 3 minutes for firefighters to be on the scene of the fire in a shed adjacent to the Jiulong Obstetrics...

Nantong Releases 23H1 GDP Growth Figures that Tank those of Jiangsu!

Nantong City’s GDP in the first half of 2023 was ¥603.24 billion, an increase of 7.0 percent year-on-year, 2.7 percentage points higher than...

Suzhou with China’s First BIM Application Standard for Intelligent Construction

Suzhou stands at the forefront of the country, with its moves toward Building Information Modelling (BIM) that improve the quality and safety of...

Tesla Cyberquad for Kids Now On Sale in Nanjing Stores

Launched on the Tesla website on 14 July, children can now test drive the 13-kilometre range, lithium-ion battery powered ¥11,900 NEV in Nanjing...

Bus Driver & Passengers Pull Boy Back from Suicide off Yangtze River Bridge

As the driver of the Nanjing 502 bus reached him, the boy was hanging from the outside of the Bridge’s parapet. Passengers from...

Human Organs aboard Flight Diverted into Yangzhou Taizhou International

Organs aboard the Sichuan Airlines flight on 21 July were driven by ambulance the rest of the way, arriving at Wuxi People's Hospital...

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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