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By Popular Demand! Nanjing’s 1st Lilac Festival Extended to 14 April

This year, the second Shishan Shangsi Festival Lilac Spring Festival in Daxian Temple, Qixia District, invites national intangible cultural heritage guqin inheritors, opera performers, Nanjing poetry writers, calligraphy and painting masters. Full story (in Chinese) via this link; read...

Children Gain Knowledge of Traditional Chinese Medicine on Xuzhou Metro

The Xuzhou Metro Traditional Chinese Medicine Culture Promotion Train was put into operation on 5 April, on which the names and uses of Chinese medicinal materials are introduced in the form of pictures and texts by the train’s seats....

Huge Coincidence as Suzhou Woman Finds Lost Backpack in Vietnam

Ms. Zhang found the backpack at a local scenic area while on holiday. Checking its contents, she found a Chinese ID card and elected to bring the bag home. Police were able to contact the owner Ms. Wang, incredulously...

Girls’ Dormitory in Suzhou Stormed by Troop of Monkeys

Over ten monkeys scattered daily necessities around the dormitory’s balconies while staff with Suzhou University of Science and Technology said on 10 April it is likely the monkeys escaped from an adjacent park on account of being hungry. Full...

Tim Hortons Links up with Suzhou Museum to Promote Co Branded Products 

Three co branded flower teas have been launched in the collaboration inspired by cultural relics in the Museum; “Orange Flower Oolong Tea Latte”, “Gardenia Green Tea Latte”, and “Pure Milk Tea - Gardenia Green Tea”. Full story (in Chinese)...

Metal Detector Catches Man Stealing 1,000 KG of Materials from Employer in Zhenjiang

With the factory where he worked only counting the quantity of finished products and not the remaining amount of raw materials, the employee surnamed Hu found a surveillance blind spot. All was well with his scam until the detector...

Migratory Birds Win Top Prize in Nanjing’s “Winter Watch” Photography Contest

Foraging cormorants over the estuary of the Qinhuai into the Yangtze in Nanjing won first prize in the contest organised by environmental protection agencies together with the Yangtze Evening News. The photographer was He Congpei. Full story (in Chinese)...

Crayfish in Nanjing Cheaper this Year but Sales Still Far from Ideal

With ¥100 now buying 1.5 kilograms of crayfish, Nanjing’s aquatic wholesalers believe that there are too many people raising crayfish this year. But local citizen Ms Zhao said, “I think everyone is a bit 'aesthetically fatigued' about crayfish”....

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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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