Jiangsu

First responders received the call at 20:47 on 7 July that a fire had broken out at Nanshan Zhangmei Dog Farm on Zhulin Lane in Runzhou District. Such was the intensity of the blaze firefighters resorted to water cannons...

Located in Zhuhai Leisure and Sports Town in Wangguanji of Sucheng District, among the other attractions in Suqian Zhuhai Fantasy Star Water World is a 90x80-metre tsunami pool capable of making waves up to 2.5 metres high. Full story...

Zhou Yinfu is almost 70 but didn’t hesitate when an 80-year old fellow villager fell into the well with only a 80cm wide opening on 29 June. With no rope or tools, Zhou climbed down the well’s interior wall....

Normally technically and genetically very difficult, China’s first domestically produced supermale asparagus plant has been cross pollinated at the modern asparagus seedling base in Dongping Village in Nantong’s Tongzhou District. Full story (in Chinese) via this link; read lots...

The Wuxi Federation of Trade Unions has set some 756 day care programs in schools, as well as Party and service centres, open to children aged 6-14, where they may complete homework and take part in activities. Lasts until...

Suzhou’s GDP in the 1st quarter of this year topped half a trillion renminbi, a year-on-year growth of 7.9 percent, top among the 26 cities in China with an annual GDP of over ¥1 trillion. But how exactly has...

The creators of the three-episode short play about some jade escaping the British Museum which has become an online hit said, “We have never authorised any commercial rights to the outside world, nor have we authorised the exhibition”. Full...

The larger of the two, the “SHANDONG DA ZHI”, 360 metres long, with a width of 65.06 metres, a weight of over 400,000 tonnes and loaded with Brazilian iron ore, weighed anchor to berth at Lianyungang Port’s 87 berth...