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Banned! Suzhou Cracks down on Mobile Pork Stalls Selling Wild Pig & Earth Pig

Taicang City has recently seen a proliferation in unhygienic pork stalls which are highly mobile and difficult to track. The general public are reminded to purchase fresh meat such as pork from regular farmers' markets or supermarkets. Full story...

2024 International Wushu Invitational Tournament Opens in Wuxi

Vice-chairman of the International Wushu Federation Sharif Mustafa is attending the event said to be the highest-level world competition in the martial arts world, taking place on 23 and 24 April in the Jiangyin Pegasus Water City Sports Centre....

Polar Bear’s Blind Date was Failure; 20 Hour Bus Ride Home to Nanjing

In October, 2021, “Zai Zai” went to Xi’an for his blind date with “Aika” and “Sissi”, but with their hormone levels unequal, neither are yet pregnant. Zai Zai’s temperature-controlled ride arrived back at Nanjing Underwater World on 22 April....

Too Few Toilets at Concert Comment Addressed on Social Media by Wuxi Vice Mayor

Jiang Pengju was seated centre back for Phoenix Legend’s concert at the Changzhou Olympic Sports Center Stadium. In response to the complaints on Douyin, the Vice Mayor replied, “It will be improved today”. Full story via this link; read...

Liu Suzhen, Nanjing Massacre Survivor, Passes Away Aged 93; Now 35 Remain

Liu was only 6 years old when the Japanese army she scalded her with boiling water on her right arm. She once said, “We must remember that only by knowing the bitterness can we know the sweetness.” Lui passed...

Eagerly Awaited Suqian Civic Centre to be Completed by this September

Over 120,000 square metres and comprising a local chronicles hall, library, activity centre and much more, ¥1.138 billion has gone in to the Suqian Civic Centre which will also feature a 9,000 square metre glass curtain wall. Full story...

Earth Day Satellite Photo of Lake Tai in Spring Stuns Wuxi People

The Ministry of Ecology and Environment has this year rated Lake Tai as “fair”, while also in 2024, water quality in the centre of the Lake reached Class III for the first time since monitoring began in 2007. Full...

Nanjing Travels to St. Louis to celebrate 45 Years of City Sisterhood

On 21 April,1979, St. Louis was twinned with Nanjing as the first US city with a sister in the People’s Republic of China. The visiting Chinese delegation took in Gateway Arch National Park and the Missouri Botanical Garden for...

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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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