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Ford’s Massive New Nanjing Test Centre a First for China

The Ford Motor Company is reinforcing its commitment to product development and innovation in China with the opening last week of the ¥680 million Nanjing Test Centre (NTC). As part of Ford’s RMB 1.3 billion investment to further innovation at...

Mother Informed by School Both Daughters Hepatitis C Infected

After a routine school body check, a local mother was informed that her 12-year-old daughter had abnormal liver function and was diagnosed with hepatitis C after being hospitalised; her 9-year-old sister had normal liver function, although she unfortunately tested...

Nanjing to Ensure Traditional Chinese Medicine Available to All

24 November, the Nanjing municipal government announced the "Development Plan of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in Nanjing from 2017 to 2030". By 2020, it is planned that all towns, hospitals and community health services, as well as over 95 percent...

Iconic Eyewear Brand Oakley Opens First China Store in Nanjing

Nanjing once again takes its place on the international stage with the opening of China’s first dedicated Oakley store, as 29 November saw the opening of such in Xinjiekou’s Deji Plaza. In Nanjing to officially open the store were...

Automated Nanjing Metro Line 7 a First for Jiangsu Province

Tomorrow, 29 November, shall see ground broken on Nanjing Metro Line 7. Nothing that remarkable there, we might think, until that is, we are told that Line 7 will be driverless. As the first fully automated...

Nanjing Awarded 2020 World Indoor Athletics Championships

Following three passionate and technically high level presentations made by all three candidates, the Chinese city of Nanjing was awarded the IAAF World Indoor Championships 2020. Delegations from the three candidate cities made their presentations to...

Zimbabwe’s New President’s Military Roots in Nanjing

With the swearing in today of Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa as the Zimbabwean successor to long-term president Robert Mugabe, The Nanjinger takes a look back at the new president’s military career which has its beginnings right here in Nanjing 54...

Former Dutch Embassy Reopens as Nanjing Republican Map Museum

Often the best moments living in a city such as Nanjing occur when we get to step into another world that is literally a few metres off a main thoroughfare; a secret to which it feels we alone are...

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Shanghai’s Railway Map Shifts East; Cross City to Hongqiao soon but a Memory

For years, Shanghai’s high-speed rail map has pulled passengers towards Hongqiao. That balance is beginning to change. New stations...

Shiseido Sues Aldi over a ¥24.9 Primer that Resembles Its ¥540 Rival

Shiseido has sued Aldi China, the product's manufacturer and an Aldi Shanghai store operator over unfair competition, arguing that...

Forty Tables Became Twenty; Then the Bookings Stopped

Susu has sold wedding banquets at one of the biggest hotels in her small town in northern China for...

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