Chinese rice lovers are concerned over government plans to substitute local diets with more potatoes. The government has announced their intention to reclassify potatoes to make them the fourth big staple food in China, alongside rice,...
Satina, 72, is an American lady running a bakery named Foreign grandma Bakery at Hutang Village, Wujin District, Changzhou city, Jiangsu province. She is called “foreign grandma” by local people.
Although her bakery business is thriving, Satina lives alone. Soon...
2015 has been ushered in, from a municipal perspective at least, by two big-ticket good news/bad news stories. In the first, New Years Day was the date chosen for Nanjing municipal government’s first ever “open house”,...
As 2015 dawns Nanjing Expat is rolling out a year-long project that aims to capture an informative snapshot of the expat community in Nanjing. In the Nanjing Expat 2015 survey that can be completed in just...
7 folk paintings, created by peasants of Sheyang county, Yancheng city and recommended by People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries of Jiangsu Province, were recently exhibited in Styria, Austria.
This is the 16th time for Sheyang's folk paintings (farmer...
The generally accepted wisdom is that all economies of the world are interconnected, and that “wealth can neither be created nor destroyed”. In real terms, as it concerns us, that translates to China having US$3.9 trillion in the bank,...
Traffic police in Runzhou District, Zhenjiang city, Jiangsu province ferreted out a motor tricycle that intruded into the restricted area on the morning of Dec 15. Surprisingly, the driver Fan Bing (alias) was found to have no driving license...
The Nanjing Government Dialogue, held on 10th December in the Hanyue Lou hotel, saw the presentation of the latest national-scale European Business in China Position Paper 2014/2015, launched in September by the European Chamber of Commerce. Yet, there was...
