Regional News

Suzhou’s GDP in the 1st quarter of this year topped half a trillion renminbi, a year-on-year growth of 7.9 percent, top among the 26 cities in China with an annual GDP of over ¥1 trillion. But how exactly has...

Now and again, there comes along a story buckingtthe trend. We too often hear of ordinary folk suffering, unable to pay their hospital bills. It’s hence heartwarming to relate a moving story of courage, care and generosity in Jiangsu. Last...

Forecast for later this week is rain. And a fair amount of it too. That’s a relief, for while a deluge has come to southern China the past few days, some extreme measures have been implemented of late in...

Nanjing, the capital of numerous ancient dynasties and even the nation itself previously, is also capital of Jiangsu Province. But it hasn’t always been that way. The factors at play? War, peace, dynastic politics, provincial demarcations and simple old...

Jiangsu is on the cusp of having its very first blind teacher, thanks to the dedication of a student at Shanghai’s top university and a fortuitous timing for the opening of her employer that is a school for the...

Tragedies are not normally inevitable. They come out of nowhere. But when it comes to that of the deadly fire in Nanjing of late, a growing body of evidence is pointing to it being a case of something like...

China’s seniors are increasingly a happy bunch. And that’s just as well, for the next decade is set to see their numbers swell enormously, in a country which already has a serious problem as regards its aging population. Cheerful...

While many are setting out on the move, so too there are those incoming to our very own Jiangsu Province, as well as folks who choose to stay put for CNY. For them, a treat awaits, with many of...