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Suzhou gets City’s 1st Ever “Zero Carbon 5A Grade Office Building”

Saving 2,674 tonnes of carbon emissions annually, the GCL Plaza uses digital-energy management to monitor the consumption of various equipment in real time. Full story (in Chinese) via this link; read the absolute essentials about Suzhou via this link.

Fukushima Discharges Prompt Nanjing Hospital to Drill Radioactive Spill

The drill simulated the spill of 131 litres of contaminated liquid in the Radiology Department of Jiangsu Provincial People’s Hospital and its nurses’ response thereto. Full story (in Chinese) via this link; read about Nanjing introduced as never before via...

UFO Sighted up and down China’s Eastern Seaboard as NASA Comes Clean

Just before NASA revealed its findings of a UFO report, people in Jiangsu, Shandong, Tianjin and Beijing claimed to have seen a UFO on the evening of 13 September. Full story (in Chinese) via this link; read the absolute...

Mother & Baby Saved from Drowning by Yangzhou City Administrator

Sun Guogen, with the City’s beautification dept., wasted no time in throwing down his mobile phone and keys to jump into the water and pull the woman and child ashore. Full story (in Chinese) via this link; read the...

National Geographic Opens Outdoor Shop in Nanjing’s Deji Plaza; Expensive!

DJs and coffee were the hallmarks of the recent opening of National Geographic Apparel in Nanjing, the South Korean owned first such store of its kind in China. Full story via this link; read about Nanjing introduced as never...

Yangtai Airport Launches Flights to Seoul & City Bordering North Korea

On 13 September, China Southern Airlines commenced a Guangzhou-Yangtai-Dandong flight, while two flights per week to Seoul are to begin 27 September. Full story (in Chinese) via this link; read the absolute essentials about Yangzhou via this link.

What are the Odds?! Foreigner Loses Passport in Zhenjiang but gets it Back!

The student at Jiangsu University of Science and Technology praised Zhenjiang as “warm” after police used surveillance camera footage to track the taxi with his passport. Full story (in Chinese) via this link; read the absolute essentials about Zhenjiang...

1st 100-metre Ultra Long Wind Turbine Blade Transport Ship Departs Yangzhou

11 September saw the “Haiyun 8” ship, loaded with six 111-metre long wind turbine blades, each weighing 46 tonnes, depart the no. 3 berth of Yangzhou Port. Full story (in Chinese) via this link; read the absolute essentials about...

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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...

China’s Metro Map Grows by Almost 65km Ahead of National Day

China’s National Day holiday has arrived with three cities adding new metro links. Nanjing, Qingdao and Changchun have opened...

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