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Nanjing Shanty-Town House Fetches ¥2.2 Million at Auction

A shanty-town house located at 22 Lingyin Lu, in the vicinity of Ninghai Lu in Nanjing, has been auctioned off for an incredible ¥170,000 per square metre (sqm); all because it’s near a decent school. Chinese people go to extraordinary...

Try 5G for Yourself Today!

With China’s 5G network very much in the headlines, it’s easy to overlook the obvious question; “If/when can we use it?”. Well not yet, at any rate, although that is beginning to change with the recent launch of a “5G...

Manchester City Gets Set for Nanjing Games with Mascot Tour

Preparations for the 2019 Premier League Asian Cup are moving into overdrive, as illustrated by the mascots of Manchester City, Newcastle United, West Ham United and Wolverhampton Wanderers making a recent tour of Nanjing. The four teams will compete with...

Gaokao’s Top 5 Toughest Questions of All Time

The last few days’ Dragon Boat Festival has not been friendly to all, as this year it has coincided with the much dreaded University Entrance Examination, known in Chinese as the “Gaokao”. Each year, the exam becomes a talking...

China’s Substitute for Knowledge; Hysterical Fashion Consumerism

Uniqlo has gone viral again in China, with crazed customers rushing into shops, fighting for new T-shirt crossover KAWS. On shelf, online, for just 1 day, the canvas bags were all sold out on Taobao, while the T-shirts go...

Global Video Competition Finds Finalist in Former NIS Student

A former student of Nanjing International School (NIS) has been selected as one of 25 finalists, out of over 300,000 entries, to a world-wide competition that has been seeking out the best videos made about China by foreigners. 南京国际学校(NIS)的一名前学生在30多万份参赛作品中被选为25名决赛选手之一,参加一项全球比赛,该比赛一直在寻找外国人制作的关于中国的最佳视频。 Launched late...

Vladivostok Soon to be Less than 4 Hours from Nanjing

Nanjing Lukou International Airport has announced that a new international flight from Nanjing to Vladivostok shall commence operation on 28 June, 2019. The service, operated by Shanghai-based Juneyao Airlines, shall link Nanjing and the northeastern Russian city with a flight...

Nanjing Creative Design Week; Life and Industry Infuse Creations

Nanjing Creative Design Week officially opened on 28 May, 2019, with theme of "Creative Enabling City". Through nearly 100 activities across Nanjing, the week-long event explores the integration of creativity and industry, creativity and life. Kicking the week off was...

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Iranians in China become more Visible than Countable

These things often start, not with a statistic, but with a voice; Persian heard in a lift, a WeChat...

Why Chinese Men Can’t Quit; Smoking, Face and the State

China has 300 million smokers, nearly a third of the world's total. The imbalance between the sexes is stark:...

US Dept of Justice Says Nanjing Firm Hacked NASA, Senate & More

A sharp new cyber case has put a Nanjing company at the centre of a much wider political row....

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