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No Good Deed goes Unpunished; Accused by Family but Rewarded for Bravery

On the night of 14 May, Yang Fan witnessed a heavily intoxicated elderly man fall off his bicycle on Yingtian Jie in Nanjing to then cordon off traffic from the scene. Police later averted the family’s accusations, revealing the...

Nobel Prize Winner Meets with Changzhou Party Secretary in Name of Frontier Science 

Roger D. Kornberg won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 2006 and is President of the World Association of Top Scientists. He met with Party Secretary Chen Jinhu on 17 May to promote more cooperative results in the synthetic...

1st Electric Car Rolls off New Production Line in Yancheng; Costs under ¥30,000

The Pentium Pony rolled off the China FAW Yancheng assembly line on 17 May. As A new-energy strategic model for the Bestune brand, the Pony is described as being good looking , fun and easy to drive, offering great...

Blogger Exposes Market Trader’s Short Changing; Management Confiscate his Phone

Upon confronting the vendor in the Lianyungang Vegetable and Seafood Direct Sales Market on 17 May, the blogger became surrounded by other vendors while his phone was taken away. Local market supervision are handling the matter. Full story (in...

Xuzhou Firm Sees Unprecedented Orders for World’s Biggest Crane

Built by XCMG, Xuzhou’s biggest employer, the XCA4000 wheeled crane has a maximum lifting capacity of 4,000 tonnes and is able to lift 230 tonnes to an altitude of 170 metres. It is primarily in demand for the installation...

National Plan for Nanjing’s Low Altitude Economy to be Worth ¥50 Billion by 2026

Defined as airspace below 3,000 meters, the plan predicts Nanjing to have in excess of 120 high-tech, low-altitude enterprises, 240 low-altitude aircraft take-off and landing fields plus the relevant supporting infrastructure. Full story (in Chinese) via this link; read...

National Badminton Championships to be Held in Yangzhou from 28 May

Tickets are now on sale for the 6-day Championships in which 301 athletes will compete. With over 20 companies as sponsors, the mascot for the games, “Yang Xiaoyu”, is based on a shuttlecock and an oriental white stork. Full...

Nantong Bus Primary School Fatality Result of Traffic Light Failure

Due to traffic light malfunction, the bus driver did not observe the intersection carefully and passed through at over 30 km/h. The dump truck travelling east-west at over 50 km/h that collided with the bus led to the death...

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China Creates an X-Class of Train Numbers for Services above 350KM/H

China is giving its fastest trains a letter of their own. A new X prefix, read xīn (新, "new"),...

China’s Brain Banks Need Donors as Human Tissue Reveals Dementia Clues

China’s human brain banks are still struggling to attract donors more than a decade after the first facilities opened,...

Car-Bed Campers Turn Hotel Car Parks into Free Showers and Toilets

Chinese road trippers are swapping hotel rooms for the back seats of their own cars, folding them flat into...

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