Briefings from Jiangsu

104 Year Old Man Walks out of Hospital Hours after Spine Surgery in Nantong

Setting a record for the highest age for spine surgery in Nantong First Hospital and  also revealing the potential for modern minimally-invasive spine...

Construction to Commence on New Twin Towers in Suzhou to Enhance SIP

As a key project on the banks of Jinji Lake in Suzhou Industrial Park, the distinctive  Hudong Twin Towers commercial office complex, occupying...

American becomes 1st Foreigner to Buy Car in Wuxi using Passport

Avril, who ordered a Li Auto L6Max in mid April, received her subsidy of ¥4,000 on 12 May. Praising Wuxi, she finds transportation...

Nanjing-Paris Flights to Debut in Early July on China Eastern Airlines

Beginning on 9 July as a weekly service every Wednesday using Boeing 777 equipment, flight MU845 will depart Nanjing at 00:45 and arrive...

Nanjing Football Club Releases Official Video (and No one is there to See it)

But 49 seconds long, the video made by the Yangtze Evening News, released on 8 May entitled “Nanjing must Win” and described as...

AstraZeneca’s US$475 Million gets to Work in Wuxi to Consolidate Global Supply Chain

8 May saw construction begin on AstraZeneca’s new small molecule pharmaceutical plant. Since setting up in 1993, AstraZeneca has put US$1 billion into...

Woman Stands outside Home Waiting for Ambulance with Umbilical Cord Not Severed

While the Lianyungang mother and child are now safe and out of danger, Doctors remind in the case of sudden childbirth at home...

Jiangsu Announces 25Q1 GDP; All 13 Cities Exceed ¥100 Billion

Of all of Jiangsu's cities, Suzhou ranked first with an economic aggregate of ¥609.568 billion, accounting for nearly one-fifth of the province's total...

Nanjing World Heritage Site Defaced with “I Woz Here” over May Day Holiday

The defacing of a stone camel’s buttocks along the road to Ming Xiaoling in Nanjing with the slogan, a largely indecipherable name and...

Jiangsu Receives 33 Million Tourists over May Day Holiday; No.1 in China!

Some 35,330,200 tourists visited Jiangsu during the Labour Day break, placing the Province top in terms of cultural and tourism consumption. Museums were...

Local Reviews

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,...

Surprises all Round as Culinary Superlative Lands in Nanjing

They brought us a bowl of rice. And that was it. Fortunately, by the time we got over how...

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