Briefings from Jiangsu

Xuzhou’s Biggest Firm Makes a Splash at World’s Biggest Construction Machinery Expo

Among the 500 Chinese machinery industry enterprises participating in Bauma 2025 in Munich, XCMG had sold all of the 62 customised product prototypes by...

Man Discovered with 25CM Long Chopsticks up His Butt for 3 Years!

It turned out that the senior in Taizhou had used metal chopsticks to dig out his  own stool 3 years ago because of...

More Nanjing Metro 5 Controversy; Flack for Station Name’s Calligraphy

An expert has pointed out no less than five issues they describe as “violating the principles of calligraphy” on signs at Fangjiaying Station...

Fu Baoshi Stars in Special Exhibition of Masterpieces at China Grand Canal Museum

84 works by nearly 60 famous artists from the Ming and Qing dynasties feature in the exhibition sourced from the Collection of Jiangsu...

Early Warning System Reveals Illegal Online Car Hailing Operators to Police

Police technology alerted officers to the illegal operations in Changzhou’s Xinbei District on 14 April; 苏DD guised as 苏DA without the necessary permit....

¥100 Million of Gold Cultural Artefacts Weighing 115KG to be Displayed in New Exhibition

The special exhibition featuring 478 gold artefacts unearthed from the Tomb of Liu He, Marquis of Haiyang in the Han Dynasty, is being...

14 Years ago She Played a Prostitute! But Fans are still Today in Adoration

Completely unknown Ni Ni was discovered by Zhang Yimou to star in the Nanjing Massacre epic, alongside Christian Bale, in part because she...

Watch it Pour with Rain INSIDE Sam’s Club Store in Nanjing

It rained down on the main shopping area of Sam's Club in Jiangbei New Area of Nanjing after a water pipe burst in...

Media Speaks out on Wuxi Railway Station; It’s Not Easy to Say “I Love You”

Rare for the media to criticise, director of the Political News Department of The Paper Chen Liangfei has penned a diatribe calling Wuxi...

Thumbs up for Nanjing from the French; “A Very Important Investment Place for Us”

Among the praise lauded Nanjing at a 16 April conference was that from the Founder of Nanjing Ansai’ou Railway Traffic Technology, who said,...

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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