China’s e-bike riders are now required to wear helmets by law, a development that has had the knock-on effect of opening up the kind of opportunity not seen in China in perhaps 3 decades. For many, it's the stuff...
With bike share companies shirking responsibility and Nanjingers dumping their rides where they please, so it falls to local authorities to clean up the mess. In a new experimental initiative, volunteers join police to keep Nanjing’s pavements orderly.
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China is transcending into a new frontier of ESL education, and Nanjing is at the forefront of this radical shift. Schools are returning to the norm, yet a caveat presents itself; education can resume digitally or return to the...
The whirlwind of construction that is the expansion of the Nanjing Metro system continues at speed. Last week, Nanjing Metro released a progress update on the construction of lines 5, 6, 7, 9 and S6, as well as extensions/additional...
This week is National Cosmetics Safety Awareness Week. With the overall aim of improving the general public's awareness for the safe use of makeup, the initiative is taking many forms in different parts of China, from online blogs to...
The last 3 months have been a whirlwind for one little Nanjing girl, as her YouTube channel has turned her into somewhat of an internet celebrity; videos of her almost flawless singing and playing guitar racking up millions of...
China has come far in terms of liberalisation, a fact manifest by a Nanjing University professor’s success at tabling an animal rights motion at this year’s “Two Sessions” in Beijing. Yet, he has an 84 year-old astronomer to thank...
Traffic in opposing lanes is often separated by barriers, but who says they have to remain stationary? Nanjing is blazing the way forward for smart city roads, as an automatic tidal lane has entered operation that helps considerably to...
