Briefings from Jiangsu

Equal Access and Enjoyment for All Abilities in New Nanjing Park 

Braille, audio guides, a tactile path and no harmful plants feature in Nanjing’s first inclusive park, opened yesterday and located within the City’s...

22nd China Jiangning Hengxi Watermelon Festival Enters Second Session

Marketing, technical seminars and exhibitions comprise the Festival, offering visitors a visual, tasty and auditory cultural and tourism feast. Lasts until 20 June. Full...

Wuxi to Strive for 250 Billion Biopharmaceutical Industry by 2025

Li Yaping, Deputy Secretary General of the Wuxi government, announced the ambitious target for the city’s emerging biopharmaceutical industry on 26 May. Full...

Temperatures Top 35 Degrees in Nanjing, Hefei and Shanghai

Nanjing City’s observation station recorded a temperature of 35.1 degrees Celsius at 12:44 on 28 May, marking the first high-temperature day of the...

Thou Shalt Not Collude on Hotel Prices During College Entrance Exam

The “Notice on Regulating Price Behaviour in Hotel Industry during College Entrance Examination” was served on hotels in Liyang of Changzhou yesterday, 29...

Youth Sports Exchange Week Welcomes Hundreds of Students from Abroad

Set up in 2020, almost 300 students from 48 countries and regions are taking part in the event in Huai’an that includes orienteering...

Nanjing International School Students Hit Headlines in Local Media

Over 20 students at NIS took part in the City Wall Music Festival held on top of Zhonghua Men on 23 May, celebrating...

First Flight between Northern Jiangsu and Hong Kong Takes to Skies

Shenzhen Airlines flight, ZH9085, with 127 passengers, departed Nantong on 26 May. Hong Kong was Nantong’s number one source of foreign investment last...

Alibaba and STO Move to Launch Next Day Delivery Guarantee in YRD

Look for the "next-day delivery” mark on products when ordering online from within the Yangtze River Delta that comprises Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and...

Environmental Triumph Reveals Record Numbers of Endangered Milu

The numbers of Pere David’s deer in the Dafeng Milu National Nature Reserve in Yancheng have swelled to 7,033, with 3,116 of 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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