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“Love Hotels” out, “E-sport Hotels” in, this Valentine’s Day

Young couples don’t go to "love hotels" on Valentines Day anymore. In fact, they pretty much don’t go anywhere now, because the youth of China are increasingly checking in as singles. To play e-sports. But they might take their...

Nanjing Company, Pfizer & others to Accelerate COVID Drug Production

With Chinese New Year around the corner, the rush is on to bring as many COVID treatments to the market as possible, given the probability of an enormous spike in infections. Among those stepping up, a Nanjing company is...

Robot Dog & Bomb Disposal Join in Celebrating Nanjing Police Day

Earlier this week marked the third Chinese People's Police Day, with law enforcement authorities putting on a host of displays and ceremonies across the nation, ranging from hoisting the nation’s flag to educating young children as to the nature...

Break Dancing Team for Paris 2024 Olympics Revealed in Nanjing

Unbelievably, the Olympics are being held next year. But the short interval with which it feels the global pinnacle of sport is once again coming around has not stopped China, and Nanjing for that matter, from being ready. And...

Hundreds Line Streets as Trafficked 4 Year Old Girl Returns Home

Crowds have lined the streets in a village in faraway Guangdong Province to welcome home a 4-year-old girl who was abducted and taken north to be sold to a man from our very own Jiangsu, in an ordeal concluding with...

China says 88 to A380; Last Super Jumbos Depart Middle Kingdom

China’s borders reopening has come a little late for the biggest passenger airliner ever made. Scrap? Or spare parts? What fate awaits the last of the Super Jumbos to be flown by a Chinese airline? Today, it seems now...

International Flight Bookings Skyrocket as Border Set to Reopen

Tourism is finally getting the shot in the arm for which it has waited so long, with all that pent-up demand for travel already beginning to unleash itself. So stow those table trays, and prepare for an Australian and...

Toilet is China’s Ugliest Building? More Nearby & 2 in Nanjing!

Comparisons to toilets are something of a recurring theme in the 2022 list of architectural eyesores in China, as voted for by the general public and released at the end of each year. And the outright winner this year...

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China Grows 4.5 Percent in Q3 but Exports are Doing Outsized Work

China's economy grew 4.5 percent in the third quarter, up from 4.3 percent in the second, yet investment in...

German Chemical Giant BASF to Make Chip Materials in Nanjing by 2028

German chemical giant BASF will build a semiconductor materials plant in Nanjing, with start-up expected by the end of...

China Creates an X-Class of Train Numbers for Services above 350KM/H

China is giving its fastest trains a letter of their own. A new X prefix, read xīn (新, "new"),...

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