Briefings from Jiangsu

Don’t Hurry Consuming Hot Food; Changzhou Man Eats Noodles, Vomits Blood

Mr Cai hastily consumed the noodles without waiting for them to cool down, and then developed a severe burning pain in his throat...

2,151 Air Conditioned Classrooms to be Installed in Zhenjiang

The move in Zhenjiang falls in line with work requirements for the provincial government on the full coverage of air conditioning in primary...

Deemed Safety Risk, Wuxi’s 50 Year Old “Underground Great Wall” to be Backfilled

A backfill volume of approximately 65,000 cubic metres of material ise required to close off the 3.2 kilometres of tunnels that comprise the...

Wuxi Opens 2nd Pottery Museum Integrating Artistic Creation & Fashion

Designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kum, the Tao Art Museum is the finishing touch to the 64,000 square metre Yixing No.2 Pottery Factory...

Century Old Railway Station is Hottest New Landmark in Nanjing

The location for many classic film and TV dramas, the Pukou Railway Station area  has been under renovation for over a decade. Opened...

Huaiyin Institute of Technology to be Renamed Huai’an University

The Institute, beginning life as Huaiyin Industrial College founded in 1958, today boasts over 22,000 undergraduates. Recent approvals received for the addition of...

5 Day National Fencing Championships underway in Wuxi

With over 370 competitors in town for that regarded as the most important and highest-level fencing event of the year, the National Fencing...

9,000 Tonne Continuous Beam for Railway Bridge in Nantong Successfully Installed

The continuous beam of Qidong Bridge is 145.5 metres long, the length of 6 EMU carriages. With train operations on the existing Ningqi...

Cycling Fever in Nanjing Boosted with 4 New Ecological Biking Trails

Over 500,000 Nanjingers now see cycling as a kind of spiritual enjoyment. The trails, called “See the Mountain”, “See the Lake”, “See the...

Changzhou Reveals World’s Largest Piling Ship Master Cylinder

With a bore of 1.6 metres and a stroke length of 21 metres, the record breaking cylinder has a rated thrust of 5,000...

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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