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Automated Nanjing Metro Line 7 a First for Jiangsu Province

Tomorrow, 29 November, shall see ground broken on Nanjing Metro Line 7. Nothing that remarkable there, we might think, until that is, we are told that Line 7 will be driverless. As the first fully automated...

Nanjing Awarded 2020 World Indoor Athletics Championships

Following three passionate and technically high level presentations made by all three candidates, the Chinese city of Nanjing was awarded the IAAF World Indoor Championships 2020. Delegations from the three candidate cities made their presentations to...

Zimbabwe’s New President’s Military Roots in Nanjing

With the swearing in today of Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa as the Zimbabwean successor to long-term president Robert Mugabe, The Nanjinger takes a look back at the new president’s military career which has its beginnings right here in Nanjing 54...

Former Dutch Embassy Reopens as Nanjing Republican Map Museum

Often the best moments living in a city such as Nanjing occur when we get to step into another world that is literally a few metres off a main thoroughfare; a secret to which it feels we alone are...

Local Amethyst Smuggling Coup Bags Crystal Worth 267 Million

21 November, Nanjing customs cracked an amethyst crystal smuggling case, worth a total of ¥267 million. The bust effectively brought down four gangs that had been shifting the crystal through the port of Lianyungang, northeast of Nanjing. The case...

Mall of All Malls Reclaims Throne for Nanjing Property Developer

Almost a year to the day after The Nanjinger reported on the construction of what was then touted as “Asia’s largest single building”, Golden Eagle Square Plaza opened for business this last weekend, the 18th November being an auspicious...

Car Boot Sale Provides Shot in the Arm for Expat Service Centre

The fifth official Nanjing Car Boot Sale was held on Saturday afternoon, in part helping to raise funds to assist with the expansion of the Nanjing International Community Clubhouse that provides services to the foreign community. Held in its...

Grave Cover Up in Nanjing Village vs Property Developer

10 November, and local Nanjing resident Ms. Jin told of the graves of her family members being dug up and destroyed by a real estate developer, leaving behind only a small amount of bones but a large scar of psychological injury....

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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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