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Suzhou South Railway Station; Set to Open by End 2024

Some 10 kilometres away from Zhouzhuang Ancient Town and surrounded by dense lakes, a huge steel structure is rising from the dense network of surrounding lakes. It’s a spectacular sight. For this is to be the all-new Suzhou South...

Drone Users in China Beware; New Regulations are Now in Effect

Fans of aerial photography take note this year has seen rules regarding drone flying in China enter force. It’s a move reflecting the sheer number of drones out there, as well as a tendency for increasingly daring and dangerous...

Cheapest Way to Singapore Finally Now Here! Fly out of Wuxi

A new age is upon us as 2024 kicks in, that of cut-throat competition between budget airlines to fly us between our neck of the woods in China and Singapore. The question is now a choice between incumbent, Scoot,...

Bank Makes Moves to Address Escalating Refusals to Accept Cash

With the convenience and prevalence of mobile payments in China, so too many merchants are not keen on seeing hard currency. But given it remains legal tender, vendors are obliged by law to accept it. One bank has been...

Driverless Nanjing Metro Line 7 South Section up & Running!

Nanjing’s metro network has become a little bit longer today, with the opening of the south section of fully-automated Line 7. And The Nanjinger just couldn’t wait to take a ride on that which offers significant convenience to our...

Grave Robbers Dig 5 Metre Deep Hole Targeting Cultural Relic

Huai’an City in our very own Jiangsu Province has recently become the scene for a potentially grisly grave robbing. Did someone dig up the tomb of Han Xin’s mother and attempt to rob it? Local police have opened a...

Meet Luxury! The All New High Speed Trains out of Nanjing

Cabins! They are among the goodies in store for some lucky (wealthy) travellers on high-speed trains based in Nanjing and beginning their service life in the near future. They, and a host of other improvements to make our journeys...

How Old is Nanjing? 2,500 Years? Not any More! Try 3,100 Years!

Nanjing now has a problem, namely every instance that cites the City as having a history of 2,500 years. That’s a lot of tour guides, signage, websites, etc. For 600 years needs to be added to every last one,...

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Car-Bed Campers Turn Hotel Car Parks into Free Showers and Toilets

Chinese road trippers are swapping hotel rooms for the back seats of their own cars, folding them flat into...

China’s Metro Map Grows by Almost 65km Ahead of National Day

China’s National Day holiday has arrived with three cities adding new metro links. Nanjing, Qingdao and Changchun have opened...

Shanghai’s Railway Map Shifts East; Cross City to Hongqiao soon but a Memory

For years, Shanghai’s high-speed rail map has pulled passengers towards Hongqiao. That balance is beginning to change. New stations...

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