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The Nanjinger arose from a dream that a city with a history as long, and a status as important, as Nanjing, deserves a world-class English media outlet. Beginning life in 2009 and evolving into being the city’s English media of record, The Nanjinger brings the international and English-speaking community a wide and varied selection of news and features about Nanjing, its surrounding area, and Chinese culture, while adhering to international journalistic standards as to both impartiality and objectivity.

Feature Stories

Ordering Food in China 4 Non Chinese Speakers

Emma Schneider -
Saying that food delivery in China has boomed is a colossal understatement. Over the last decade the size of its market has grown nearly 40 fold. While COVID was responsible for a lot of that, we haven’t transitioned away...
Feature Stories

New York vs. Nanjing; So Who’s More Convenient Now?

Rain Zhong -
With the rapid advancement of technology in the past few decades, more specifically the advancements made in AI machine learning, a fear has crept into people’s minds. Will AI one day replace us? Will the jobs of humans be...
Feature Stories

Lazy Girl or Bird of Prey? Lives of Convenience

Nic Gibson -
“The convenience of the high trees” “高树的便利” Convenience is a hot topic in China. There is much talk of the convenience of life here, all of us app-tapping our way to easy food, shopping and travel. Convenience had a super-boost with the...
Feature Stories

A Chisel of Convenience; In Praise of Procrastination!

Triona Ryan -
For those of us blessed with the need for convenience, at its most potent and circumspect, the ability to take no corner that may be cut, to streamline a process on par with the boarding and take-off of an...
Feature Stories

Convenient Noodles; How Do You Define Love?

Bobbie Ali -
Nora hated hearing Matt’s friends refer to that girl as a “snack”, as if a woman was a tasty meal to be consumed.  诺拉讨厌听到马特的朋友把那个女孩称为“零食”，好像女人是一顿美味的饭菜。 But if the girl she watched him take to the hotel was a snack, then she herself...
Money Talks

Money Talks (i); ¥$ Challenges for Mobile Foreigners

Chris Golding -
When foreign professionals start to work internationally, their contract can often become either a long-term rolling renewal or an option to move across multiple locations every few years over a sustained period of time.  One thing is for sure; once...
Local Music

Inside Nanjing’s Music Scene; Meeting the Movers & Shakers (Part 2)

Emma Fang -
Walking into the studio, “The Eight Dimensions”, a huge stage greets my eyes. With the magnesium lights shining bright upon the stage, a melodious sound began to echo in my ears. A tall girl with long hair was standing...
Big Reads

Distilling the Conversation; Drunken Apes Drive Tourism of Today

Frank Hossack -
An enormous, faux-ceramic-baijiu urn greets visitors to the Yanghe Winery Culture Tourist Area in Suqian, Jiangsu Province.  江苏省宿迁市洋河酒厂文化旅游区，一个巨大的人造陶瓷白酒瓮在迎接游客。 It’s a metaphor for the size of that which lies dormant inside the urn. And yes, it’s full (of you know what). The...

Latest News

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German Chemical Giant BASF to Make Chip Materials in Nanjing by 2028

German chemical giant BASF will build a semiconductor materials plant in Nanjing, with start-up expected by the end of...
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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"),...
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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,...

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