Briefings from Jiangsu

Light Plane Used to Train Air Force Pilots Crashes in Zhenjiang

The single-engine, two-seater light sport aircraft operating out of Zhenjiang Dalu General Airport came down on farmland on 12 July, resulting in two...

LG Principal Client for ¥2.5 Billion New Industrial Park in Taizhou

The smart-home-appliance industrial park, featuring LG’s biggest refrigeration plant in the world, has entered the decoration stage with an opening slated for October....

Woman Riding E-bike into Flooded Zhenjiang Culvert Drowned Not Electrocuted

The 50-year old woman did not listen to dissuasion and neither paid heed to the signs placed beside the flooded culvert before the...

PHEV Battery Maker Produces 500,000 Units in 2 Months at Yancheng Plant

On 22 July, SVolt held a ceremony at its Yancheng Base to celebrate the milestone in production of short-blade L400 battery cells for...

Wuxi Ties up Education in Jiangsu, Hong Kong & Macao

21 July saw the Jiangsu-Hong Kong-Macao Basic Education Cooperation Alliance unveiled in Wuxi; 192 sister schools in the three regions now participate. Full...

“Romeo & Juliet” at Nanjing Poly Grand Theatre all this Weekend!

Starring Damien Sargue as Romeo and Cécilia Cara as Juliet, the French musical version of Shakespeare’s classic has both afternoon and evening performances....

Jiangsu GDP up 6.6% for 23H1 but Some Way to Go to Beat 2022

Official statistics put Jiangsu’s GDP for the first half of 2023 at ¥6.04653 trillion. With 2022 GDP at ¥12.28756, negative growth for the...

Yangzhou Unlocks New 1 & 2 Day Tours for Summer Holidaymakers

The Yangzhou China Grand Canal Museum, City walks and Slender West Lake are among the highlights of four newly released boutique tours of...

Wuxi Airport Accelerates Shuttle Bus Frequency to/from Suzhou

From 18 July, shuttle buses to downtown Suzhou out of Sunan Shuofang International Airport number 59 every day, one every 15 minutes during...

Death Penalty for Nantong Man in Murder over Glazed Tile Trading

Nantong Intermediate People's Court held that on 12 September, 2022, Cao Youchong stabbed Tu Guorui multiple times in the back, abdomen, chest, neck...

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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