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500 KG of Free Strawberries for Lishui Half Marathon Runners!

What’s included in the price of entering a marathon? A bib, entry into the timekeeping system and a certificate/medal of participation are all commonplace, but at one marathon in Nanjing, runners also receive free strawberries. 参加马拉松比赛的费用包括什么?号码布、进入计时系统和参赛证书/奖牌都是司空见惯的事情,但在南京的一场马拉松比赛中,跑者还获得了免费的草莓。 The 2023 Nanjing Lishui Half...

Square Dancing Seniors Taking to Roads Presents Serious Danger

Seen the dancing old ladies (and sometimes men) in the evening? And perhaps early morning? Of course you have. And that’s the problem. They’re everywhere. But most worrying of all, some have even taken to our city’s roads to...

Bali Break? Flights out of Nanjing Hottest Tickets this Easter

Tomb Sweeping Day falls this year on 5 April, coinciding with the Easter break for many international schools. That’s the hot duo, combined with a rediscovered lust for travel, initiating an aircraft to very soon take to the skies...

Bangkok, Siem Reap; Here We Come! New Destinations for Summer!

We’ve waited long enough. For that, our reward is a summer schedule of flights out of Lukou which will take us to new and exotic destinations, a consolation somewhat making up for the fact we are still far from...

Nanjing City Wall; Where it’s Fattest, Thinnest, Highest, Lowest

Nanjing’s famed City Wall has been treated to a dose of high tech recently, with computer-assisted analysis revealing new data as to the Wall and its makeup, determined for the very first time and released to the public. 南京著名的城墙最近接受了高科技处理,计算机辅助分析揭示了有关城墙及其构成的新数据,这些数据是首次确定并向公众发布的。 It’s one...

Hi Fitness Freak! Focus on getting Active for Nanjing in 2023

Fitness is all the rage, in case you haven’t noticed. And China is intent on capitalising on the movement to bring further impetus to a national-fitness program aimed at creating a healthier populace, fit for satisfying the productivity demands...

Genius Horse Shows Nanjing Drivers thing or two about Road Craft

Those going about their business on four wheels as normal one day last week got a little more than they bargained for in terms of the navigable hazards that present themselves on local roads, this time coming in the...

Leaked Document Reveals Nanjing Metro Length about to Explode!

Fans of the Nanjing Metro are abuzz these days after a document was recently leaked, revealing that if all goes to plan, the length of our city’s metro network will grow by more than 50 percent by end 2026,...

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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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