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World First for Nanjing Surgeons in Mixed Reality Operating Room

Surgeons at the Jiangsu People’s Hospital in Nanjing have successfully performed a lung operation while using mixed reality (MR) technology, which is said to be the first of its kind in the world. The 56-year-old patient...

Nanjing Purple Mountain Cable Car Shame; Gone is the Chair Lift

This past weekend saw the opening of a brand new cable car service to the top of Nanjing’s Purple Mountain, replacing the chair lift service that dated back to 1993. A year in the making, and...

Nanjing Metro Line 5 Setbacks; Too Many Relics in the Way

At some point in the not so distant future, Nanjing’s metro line 5 will need to be in place under Shanghai Lu. Such a prospect has speculation running rife among those who live and work along this essential and...

Re-Cycle; Beware! Thievery is Rife Throughout Summer Nights

Video surveillance of a Xuanwu lake shop revealed yesterday that it had been burgled the night before. The video shows a man enter the shop through a window; he proceeds to rifle through everything, taking anything...

Nanjing Hero Dies Trying to Save Little Girl’s Life in Thailand

A 46-year-old lady, Wang Yuling, from Nanjing, drowned on 27 June in Pattaya, Thailand, while attempting to save the life of a little Chinese girl. At the hotel where Wang was staying, she saw a little girl struggling to...

Nanjing Metro Line S3 Could Enter Operation as Soon as November

Nanjing stands a chance of receiving its eighth metro line by the end of this year. The Nanjing Metro Group announced this week that the new link, Line S3, previously known as Line 12, will in...

International Students Can Now Legally Work in Nanjing

It has long been the case that students studying in China did not have the legal right to work or earn money in any way. Absurd as it was, this was the norm in most places in China, including Nanjing....

5 Italian Documentary Films Come to Nanjing for Exhibition and Show

"Leonardo da Vinci - Il genio a Milano", "The Vatican Museum 3D", "Florence and the Uffizi Gallery" and "Teatro alla Scala – The Temple of Wonders" are among the Italian documentary films to be exhibited and shown at the...

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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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