Briefings from Jiangsu

Provisions for Women Workers’ Labour Protection Extends Maternity Leave

The Labour Law Supervision Committee of Trade Unions in Jiangsu Province reminds employers that female employees can now enjoy a maternity leave of...

Goodbye to Tedious and Laborious Manual Quantifying of Rice Production

Professors at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications are among a team pioneering a technique for counting rice plants using drones. Full story...

Daily Flights between Nanjing and Seoul Coming from 13 March   

China Eastern Airlines, presently flying between the two cities on Tuesdays and Thursdays, will extend flight MU5039/5040 to a daily service from 13...

Nanjing Qixia’s Focus on Technology & Culture for International Women’s Day

26 exhibition booths showcasing technology, gold foil, folding fans, paper cuttings and other intangible-cultural-heritage crafts were featured at today’s event. Full story via...

Female Veterans Express Respect on International Women’s Day in Yancheng

Retired female soldiers in Funing County of Yancheng City have been taking to the stage in turn to recall and tell of their...

Nanjing Launches Female Tourist Packages with Discounted Tickets

Cut-price entry to scenic spots and gift packages are among the incentives offered today, and for a limited period, to female tourists on...

Women in Nanjing Honoured as Trade Union Lays out 2023 Mission Plan

Nanjing Trade Union is to focus on solving women’s problems with “heart and soul”, while 100 colleagues received the “Nanjing May Day Women's...

Self Defence Taught by Nanjing Police for International Women’s Day

Female police officers in Jianye have been out demonstrating self defence and escape skills, while advising on avoiding fraud in shopping and dating...

Nanjing Hotel Throws away Bottled Water; Ignores “No waste” Guidelines

The Market Supervision Department has stepped in to issue a warning after 43 bottles of water were found to be only partly consumed...

Lianyungang Port Now China’s #3 for Automotive Export

3,000 vehicles loaded onto two ro-ro vessels in Lianyungang on 3 March underscores the Port’s recent growth as starting point of the New Eurasian...

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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