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New Nanjing-Shanghai Rail Link Realises 100% 5G Coverage

Yesterday was a big deal for high-speed trains in China. Not only did it mark the first trial operation of a real train on the Yangtze River Shanghai-Nanjing High-speed Railway, it also heralded in an era for continuous 5G...

Deji Splashes out ¥4 Billion in Quest to be China’s Number 1

Construction is now underway on the third phase of Nanjing’s Deji Plaza. While that’s undoubtedly music to the ears of many a High Net Worth Individual, for Deji it’s symbolic of an ambition to be the top-performing mall in...

New High Speed Railway to Link Nanjing & Yellow Mountain!

Getting to Yellow Mountain is a pain. There is simply no way to do it not involving an inordinate length of time. But that’s all set to change now that construction of a new high-speed-rail link between Nanjing and...

Tea Wars Turn High End Shopping Mall in to Vegetable Market

Consumers have turned out to be the real winners in recent days, as a war between milk tea brands in Suzhou’s top mall brought chaos, pandemonium and more than a few bargains to the throngs drawn in by the...

Entire Airport to get 3 Week Shut Down for Runway Maintenance

Travellers in east China are today being forewarned of one of our airports taking the near-unprecedented step of closing in its entirety for a 3-week period. That means all flights are cancelled; affected travellers are being urged to contact...

Which City will be Next to Join the ¥1,000,000,000 Club?

Six cities in China are vying to be next to join the so-called “Trillion Renminbi Club”, by having a 10-figure annual GDP, based on recent data accumulated by looking at the economic performance of cities during the first half...

3 Year Bike Ride Collects Stamps from Every Post Office in China

From 2018 to 2021, a Suzhou man toured China by bicycle, taking in the nation’s 56 ethnic groups and getting his map stamped at 334 post offices. Now, a 30-second video clip of the stamping has gone viral, reigniting...

Back of Bus Hits Headlines with Moving Blind Spot Black Box Fix

Genius. And a prime example of the internet doing something worthwhile for a change. That sums up a new initiative in Nanjing which somewhat successfully addresses the problem of blind spots behind large vehicles for others as they approach...

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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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