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Yangzhou Releases Video Saluting Police Standing Guard while all around Celebrate

The video entitled “Lights” (of the red and blue variety) pays tribute the sleepless officers who stand upright, bringing people peace of mind and and help to those in need while away from their families over Chinese New Year....

Photographer Spends 1 Month Snapping Suzhou Buildings Representing Numbers 1-9

A contracted photographer for RAW.cn and Visual China, Gao Zhixin works for Suzhou Municipal Hospital. Checking satellite images and painstaking on-site research were necessary to realise the complete set of arial photos. Full story (in Chinese) via this link;...

¥5 Billion to be Spent as Construction of Oriental Space Industrial Park Kicks off in Wuxi

Located in Liangxi District, the Oriental Space Industrial Park will be oriented towards recyclable rocket-power technology, as well as R&D, production and testing rocket engines, with 30 flights each year supported upon completion. Full story (in Chinese) via this...

Nanjing Pushes Investment Climate in New Promotional Video

“So China, So Global” is the strap phrase being used to attract investment by the video, with contributions from many of the biggest foreign and domestic enterprises in Nanjing. Watch the video via this link; read about Nanjing introduced...

Children Push to Safety Car Stranded by Ice on Bridge in Yangzhou

Mr. Che Zhangzhang’s car had become stuck on the Qizha Bridge in Xiannu Town of Jiangdu District on 22 February, when three junior high school students took to pushing the vehicle to the apex of the bridge where it...

8 Oriental White Storks in Taizhou Vindication for “Ecological Island” Test Area

A national first-level key protected animal and known in China as the “Giant Panda of the Bird World”, the storks on Mazhou Island represent the largest number of Oriental white storks observed in Jingjiang of Taizhou in over 2...

Injured Finless Porpoise in Nanjing Continues to Improve; a Good Appetite

Punctured, with weeds wrapped around its tail fin and embedded in its swimming muscles by up to 5-6 cm, experts had assessed its overall condition as “not optimistic”. The finless porpoise had been rescued on 16 February. Full story...

Debate Lit up at Hot Spring Water Used to De-ice Roads in Lianyungang

Citing waste, members of the public claimed on 21 February that 82-degree hot spring water was used for de-icing in Wenquan Town of Donghai County in Lianyungang. In defence, authorities pointed to the waters’ high salt content. Full story...

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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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