With Nanjing as main venue in China for 2020's International Museum Day held this week, in the city itself the focus was on Nanjing University, where the renovated Memorial House to Nobel Prize winner, Pearl S. Buck, was reopened...
Nanjing has achieved much in fighting the epidemic; there has been not one Covid-19 death in the city. Telling this story is a new TV documentary, “Victory Over the Virus. Nanjing, China; A Case Study in Epidemic Prevention”, released...
How do you start your day? Congee? Baozi? Bacon and egg? Instant coffee? Fruit? Moldy bread? Not if you were headed to yesterday’s power breakfast with Nanjing’s Mayor. Therein, radish featured prominently, but the root’s connotations are not altogether...
There has been much comment on the clear skies this year in Nanjing, with good reason. Data just released shows that 2020’s average daily level of PM2.5 is as low as 37.7 micrograms per cubic metre (µg/m3), making Nanjing...
Colossal infrastructure construction taking place in the southwest of Nanjing is a step nearer to finally being complete, as a giant tunnel boring machine broke through yesterday; one of the major sections of the Nanjing Number 5 Bridge that...
Heavy rains came to Nanjing this afternoon, marking the start of the region’s annual flood season. Prudently, city authorities have been preparing for the inevitable by conducting a series of flood-fighting and emergency-rescue drills, while citizens shall do well...
Geological scientists in Nanjing are back in the international headlines, this time for assertions that the Earth’s mass extinctions were likely caused by volcanic activity, rather than asteroid collisions or other events proposed by media or popular culture.
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There can hardly be a foreigner in Nanjing unaware of the story of John Rabe. Yesterday, his grandson, Thomas, received medical aid in Germany to assist the European country’s fight against Covid-19. The supplies were a donation made by...
