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New Nationwide Train Timetable Links All of Jiangsu with Beijing

Just before the Chinese New Year and with COVID remaining an ominous threat might not be the best time to launch hundreds of new services in a revamped nationwide railway timetable. But what’s done is done; nevertheless, some who...

Molten Aluminium Pierces Worker’s Chest; Survival is a Miracle!

Miracles don’t happen every day. But one did this past week in our own Jiangsu Province, when a worker miraculously survived being splashed across the chest with molten aluminium at a temperature of no less than 660 degrees Celsius. 奇迹不会每天都发生。但上周我们江苏省就发生了这样的事,一名工人被温度不低于660摄氏度的熔融铝溅到胸部,奇迹般地生还。 The...

Free Helmets for Riders in New Going-Green, Bike-Share Fleet

Nanjing may have done a decent job in getting her e-bike riding citizens to wear helmets, but that’s not stopping efforts to keep those on two wheels safe in other cities, in a proactive manner that puts Nanjing to...

Nanjing’s Italian Design Expo Set to Once Again Rock Shanghai

Now a regular fixture on the Shanghai exhibition circuit, Italian Design Icons (IDI) has its roots in Nanjing’s foreign community, when a boutique expat law firm set its sights on Shanghai, from both a legal and design perspective. 如今,意大利设计偶像 (IDI)...

Dramatic High-Speed Car Crash Highlights China Highway Dangers

The National Day spike in traffic leads inevitably to more accidents on China’s roads. One incident in our own Jiangsu Province captured by surveillance cameras clearly shows the dangers associated with expressway exits, where many an accident takes place. 国庆节交通高峰不可避免地导致中国道路上发生更多事故。在我们江苏省,监控摄像头捕捉到的一件事清楚地表明了高速公路出口的危险性,那里发生了许多事故。 It...

Limb Lengthening Back in Spotlight as Local Man Faces Paralysis

A local man now facing paralysis is bringing back to light the dangers of “limb lengthening” surgery. With the practice driven underground in China, those dreaming of being taller headed abroad for the complicated procedure that left many with...

Twins Enter Jiangsu University with IDENTICAL “Gaokao” Scores

Each of a pair of twins from Wuxi just can’t seem to do anything different from their sibling, as two girls have been enrolled in Jiangsu University after achieving exactly the same score in the infamous “Gaokao”, or College...

Public Transport Addict Takes 40 Buses from Hangzhou to Qingdao

A young man from Hangzhou has found himself in the media spotlight for following the rules of a self-imposed challenge that would result in him taking 5 days to travel from his home city to Qingdao, via Nanjing, at...

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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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