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Global Food; Global Women! 200+ Pack International Food Exchange

The second annual Nanjing Global Food Exchange was held today, Friday 8 March, 2019, at the Hongtai Space in Nanjing’s 1865 Creative Park. Over 200 people attended the international food exchange that was organised by the Nanjing Association of...

Plums, Cherries, Peaches, Violets; it’s Blossom Time in Nanjing!

The virtually consistent rain in the early spring of 2019 has meant many people have not yet had the chance to savour this year's fascinating beauty of flower blossom. With improvement to the weather,  however, Nanjing now enters its...

Nanjing Startup Community Gets Shot in the Arm with New Website

This coming Friday sees the launch of a new English website for Nanjing, one with a dedicated focus to foster the Nanjing international startup community. 本周五,南京将推出一个新的英文网站,其重点是培养南京国际创业社区。 The official debut of the new site, www.startupnanjing.com, shall be announced at a Startup Grind...

China Work-Life Imbalance; Married to the Job?

Despite all the entrepreneurial advancement of recent years, in which people balance both work and life; better yet, integrate the two; mental and physical health is still on the decline. Advocates of work-life integration say it is now harder...

Bye Bye Bai Bai; Outrage Over Correct Chinese Pronunciation

Chinese citizens, nay netizens, love little more than a fierce online argument. One of the most recent and hottest is seeing uproar over the official pronunciation of common, and not so common, expressions, given their revised appearance in Chinese...

Online Food Delivery Blacklist Tackles Industry Cleanup

A district in Nanjing has taken the initiative to publish a blacklist of local food delivery businesses and to to see to it that their services are removed from online order platforms. With their fast paced lifestyles, many people do...

Beetlemania Hits Nanjing with 3mm Find in Paleontology

Nanjing’s Institute of Geology and Paleontology is back in the headlines, with its research that puts the fossil record of beetles back by more than 150 million years. After more than 2 years of research, Dr. Cai Chenyang, of...

In the Name of Innovation; German Minister Delegation in Nanjing

25 February, 2019, the “2nd Innovation Fair and Conference: Baden-Württemberg Minister Delegation Visit” took place yesterday at the Fairmont Hotel in Nanjing. Over 100 delegates from Germany’s southern state, Baden-Württemberg, visited Nanjing as the first stop of their China...

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Baby on Board in High Speed Train Emergency Delivered by Urologist into Nanjing

Mid-journey between Shanghai and Nanjing, a routine high-speed train service turned into an improvised delivery room, when a lady...

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:...

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