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New Anti COVID Drug in Production; Made in Nanjing, by Nanjing! 

Nanjing has taken the lead in production of medicines to treat COVID, as a locally-based pharmaceutical giant has brought about the first domestically-made, 3CL-protease, anti-COVID drug, with a projected-annual capacity to help tens of millions of people. 南京在新冠药物生产上处于领先地位,本土制药巨头推出了首款国产3CL蛋白酶抗新冠药物,预计年产能可帮助数千万人。 This past Saturday,...

Lung Cancer Screening; Easy Test Pioneered by Nanjing Doctors

Screening for lung cancer is by and large an expensive and time-consuming process which can only be done by larger medical facilities. But Nanjing doctors now look set to change all that, with a new procedure involving just one...

British School Students Spoilt for Choice on Career Day

This is the time of year for many students to start pondering their professional futures. It’s a time to start thinking about university applications, personal statements and the like, and so any good school will do their best to...

Coffee Required to Bribe Digital Currency Adopters in Nanjing

China’s central banking has an answer to counter the dominance posed by Alipay and WeChat in the online payments sector. As many know, it’s called the Digital Yuan, or Digital RMB, but it’s a tough sell. Turns out, as...

Genius Trailblazing Artworks Find Fitting Home by Yangtze River

Sculpture has not traditionally excited the masses. But recently, Nanjing has become home to a surprising cutting-edge collection that comprises 10 works of art on the theme of water and the Yangtze River in particular. And where else to...

Shanghai-Suzhou Metro Link Just Weeks from Trial Operations

Getting between Suzhou in Jiangsu and Shanghai has always been a right pain. Sufficiently distant to warrant a train ride, the hassle of going to either Shanghai Railway Station or Hongqiao Station simply seems pointless for a 15 or...

250,000 Turn out for Lantern Festival in Nanjing’s Fuzimiao

Numbers of visitors to Nanjing’s Confucius Temple yesterday have been put at a quarter million. But while it all went off without a hitch, this year’s en-masse descent upon Fuzimiao was for many a bonding of families and those...

Peacock Abused by Young Boy in Zoo; Tourists Take Photos

Shocking images have emerged online in the past days showing a young boy physically abusing a peacock in a Jiangsu zoo before eventually being stopped by the attraction’s keepers. Hoards of onlookers felt it a photo-worthy moment. 过去几天,网上出现了令人震惊的图片,显示一名小男孩在江苏动物园内虐待一只孔雀,最终被该景点的饲养员制止。大批围观者认为这是一个值得拍照的时刻。 It was around...

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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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