¥50 billion will be spent this year alone in the building of another 1,282 kilometres of railway lines in Jiangsu, adding to the 4,277 kilometres already existing. Full story via this link.
Four undergraduate majors in high-tech fields are courses on offer at the new campus of Nanjing University in Suzhou which welcomes its first students in September. Full story via this link.
Nanjing Metro is upping the frequency of trains on many lines in response to post-COVID demand; some 3.26 million trips were made on the network on 24 February. Full story via this link.
Bred in October, 2021, 300 Chinese Sturgeons have been released into the Yangtze for the first time. The Sturgeon is a national first-class protected animal. Full story via this link.
Certain sections of roads in Wuxi have been cleared for the use of driverless ICVs, for purposes such as patrol, courier deliveries, and even as minibuses. Full story via this link.
Zhuhai Avenue and Libai Road in Lishui, have been awarded as provincial-model roads from the DoT, after the District spent ¥5 billion on construction. Full story via this link.
Great Wall Motors, on 28 February, loaded 250 Haval cars onto a freight train headed for Almaty in Kazakhstan in a first for Jiangsu. The vehicles were built in Taizhou. Full story via this link.
Almost a decade in the making, the restoration of the century old Pukou Railway Station is a “new” 13,000-square metre, historic and cultural area. Full story via this link.