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Nanjing’s Student Body Sets Sail as Yachting Places are Seized

Excellence in academics is no longer the be all and end all for a lot of striving Chinese parents and children. Combined pressure from universities abroad for a more "well-rounded" education for their enrollees, plus a general interest in...

Scientific investigation of Yangtze finless porpoise launched in Nanjing

Nanjing Municipal Commission of Agriculture and School of Life Sciences of Nanjing Normal University launched a joint scientific study on the Yangtze finless porpoise on April 12. The investigation will last for up to two years,...

China’s Long Lost Longevity County; Bama

China’s ill and aging have begun a mass exodus to the caves of Bama in desperate hopes to cure their illnesses and prolong their lives. Masses of China’s aged and severely ill have discovered a long...

Martial Artist Catches Worker whose Scaffolding Collapsed

In scenes worthy of an action movie, a worker who fell from the side of a building in east China’s Taicang City last Wednesday was caught and saved from serious injury by a passing martial artist. ...

Out With Paris and in With Abu Dhabi

Delegates from the UAE (United Arab Emerites) have dispatched a group of hotels, travel agents, companies and airlines and also tourism departments and representatives of the industry, to Shanghai and Beijing, with stops in Chengdu, Wuhan, Guangzhou and Nanjing...

Pulitzer Prize Winning Play “Disgraced” Comes to Nanjing University

The most produced play in America in 2015-16, Ayad Akhtar’s Pulitzer- winning drama Disgraced will tour universities and high schools in China under the direction of Timothy Douglas from April 3 to 30, produced by Ping Pong Productions with...

Meituan-Dianping First Worldwide to Process More Than 10 Million Orders Per Day

Meituan-Dianping has announced that its On-Demand Delivery business has become the first online delivery platform globally to reach more than ten million daily orders and deliveries per day. Established in late 2013, the delivery platform has...

People of Xuzhou raise money for American orphanage founder

People in Xuzhou have raised more than 100,000 yuan ($14,500) to help pay for medical treatment for the American founder of an orphanage, according to Jiangsu media. Cindy Sayre, a 58-year-old volunteer from Texas, the United States, along with her...

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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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