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Solar Impulse 2 to Touch Down in Nanjing

Nanjing is just one of a select few cities worldwide that will play host to the record-breaking attempt to circumnavigate the globe in an aircraft powered solely by the Sun, when Solar Impulse 2 lands at Lukou International Airport...

Visa Office Moves To Baixia Lu

In order to offer a more pleasant environment for the visa application process, the former Nanjing Exit and Entry Administration of the Public Security Bureau located on Sanyuan Xiang, No1 Honggongci is closing its doors to the public. ...

City Rankings Reveal Disparities between Expats and Locals

The Happiest Chinese Cities and the Most Attractive Chinese Cities for Foreigners survey results for 2014 illustrate how different local and foreign experiences of Chinese cities are.    Only two cities, Qingdao and Hangzhou, appear on...

The Sun, The Moon and The Sheep; Chinese New Year 2015

The blue skies of the past week were announcing the arrival of this year's Spring Festival. The last two weeks have seen the beginning of the big departure as Nanjing's migrant workers started flocking out of...

Nanjing South; At Last Fully Operational

With the Spring Festival squash just around the corner, getting to and from Nanjing became significantly easier Tuesday, with the opening of Nanjing South Railway Station’s southern gate.  Since its inauguration some four and a half...

Big Expat Survey; First Batch of Winners

As we speed on into the second month of this new year, we would like to thank all the participants in our survey for lending us some of their time during those frosty January evenings to tell us about...

Nanjing’s Car Conundrum – Protests On All Fronts

Nanjing finds itself in a car-related crisis these days as taxi drivers and local residents have gone on strike in relation to their valuable vehicles.  The taxi drivers, who convened at Nanjing South station to collectively...

Nanjing Gov. Opens Doors; Party Secretary Behind Bars

2015 has been ushered in, from a municipal perspective at least, by two big-ticket good news/bad news stories. In the first, New Years Day was the date chosen for Nanjing municipal government’s first ever “open house”,...

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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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