The history of climbing Mount Everest is the epitome of the human spirit of adventure and exploration. As the nation today celebrates 60 years since her first ascent, in the history of China climbing Mount Everest, one individual stands...
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...
Tomorrow, 16 May, sees two fun runs take place at Yangshan Park in Qixia District’s Xianlin area, which the organiser hopes can be a reason for the local foreign community to come back together again, amid the recovery of...
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...
Foreign visitors will one day once again come to China to take in the country’s many splendid tourists attractions. That day is still some way off but this has not stopped local tourism authorities launching a contest to put...
