Briefings from Jiangsu

Hydrogen Energy Focus of Airbus China R&D Centre Now Open in Suzhou

Opened on 14 April, the Centre is to drive innovation-driven, aerospace-industrial development in Suzhou, as part of the City’s innovation clusters in the...

Changzhou Cancer Hospital & Shanghai Jiaotong University in Cancer Coop

National Cancer Prevention and Control Promotion Week got off to a start on 15 April with the commitment to build a Cancer Prevention...

Incoming Tourists up 68.45% and 22.09% on 2022 & 2019 Respectively

Data shows that 23Q1 saw 44.3734 million tourists visit Nanjing, ranking first in Jiangsu. Tourism-generated revenue amounted to ¥76.599 billion. Full story via this...

Hurricane Force Winds Hit Parts of Northern Jiangsu; 37.6 M/s!

15 April saw winds exceeding Gale Force 12 on the Beaufort scale strike Suqian (37.6m/s @17:38), Lianyungang (32.7m/s @18:14) and Yancheng (30.9m/s @19:21)....

Students Win Recording Studio Time at Music Festival in Laomendong

The fifth M-Zone Nanjing University Music Festival was held over the past weekend, with contestants also filming a promotional video, “I Love Nanjing”....

Free Public Transport & Entry to Tourist Spots for Ex Service Personnel

A new card has been unveiled granting retired service personnel free access to buses, the metro network, and 57 of Nanjing’s scenic areas,...

International University Students Learn Chinese Tea in Zhenjiang

Students from Bangladesh, Morocco, Pakistan and Ukraine were among those enrolled at Jiangsu University of Science and Technology visiting on 12 April. Full...

University Rowers to Converge on Wuxi for Boat Race

13 university teams shall take part in the first invitational tournament boat race at Yuantouzhu on Lake Tai tomorrow, co hosted by Binhu...

Catkins Public Real Time Monitoring System to be Launched on WeChat 

The Municipal Greening and Gardening Bureau revealed the initiative to provide data as to the catkins’ situation arising from Nanjing’s 80,000 French sycamores....

Cloud Library for World Book Day Comes to Nanjing Metro Line S6

Nanjing Metro has got together with Jinling Library to make a series of e-books available for passengers, just by scanning a QR code...

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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