Briefings from Jiangsu

Suzhou School for Blind Children Helps Raise ¥167,800 in Charity New Year Concert 

It was the 18th consecutive year for Suzhou Lida Middle School to hold a charity New Year's concert, which this year was more...

Record Passenger Numbers as Changzhou Metro Trains Run until 01:55 for New Year

With queues having formed outside stations, some 400,300 trips were made on 31 December until the early morning closing on the two-line system...

AI to be Rolled out at Nanjing Airport for Security Checks & Customs Clearance

With AI, big data, and the Internet of Things to guide passengers to independently complete the inspection of hand luggage, body temperature monitoring,...

Suzhou Cracks Down on Beauty Parlours for Expired Medicines & False Advertising

Media reports are highlighting eight case studies resulting in fines of ¥30,000-190,000 levied on beauty parlours for using unregistered medical devices, purchasing medicines...

Kunshan Receives 1st Female Secretary in Year End Officialdom Shuffle

Kunshan City, a part of Suzhou, has ushered in its first female secretary since the founding of the city; Chen Liyan, born in...

Exhibition of Communist Party of China Activities in France to Open in Nanjing 

Nearly 200 historical photos and documents are accompanied by charts and multimedia to show the establishment and development of the CPC in Europe....

Lianyungang Selected for 3rd Consecutive Time for Best International Communication

Lianyungang was selected as a “demonstration case” in the “Analysis Report on the Overseas Influence of Chinese Cities (2024)” report released on 24...

Nanjing Metro Line 7 Train Suffers Sudden Power Failure on 1st Day of Operation 

The incident on Line 7 in the direction of Mochou Lu Station from Yingtian Da Jie Station in the afternoon of 28 December....

Humanoid Robot Production Line in Suzhou is 1st in Jiangsu

The Leju Robot humanoid robot production line launched on 26 December produces humanoid robots which can jump and adapt to walking on various...

Construction of Yancheng-Yixing High Speed Railway gets Underway

With an opening held on 27 December, the line will feature stops at Xinghua East, Taizhou South, Taixing East, Jingjiang, Jiangyin, Huishan, Taihu...

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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