News from around Jiangsu Province in eastern China and its 13 cities therein; Nanjing, Wuxi, Xuzhou, Changzhou, Suzhou, Nantong, Lianyungang, Huai’an, Yancheng, Yangzhou, Zhenjiang, Taizhou and Suqian.
After the city of Wuhan was quarantined, among the millions who cannot return are pet owners. Many had left their cats alone with a week’s supply of food and water. As time went on, the poor, left-behind cats desperately...
Hotels, restaurants, cafes, bars, teahouses, beauty salons and gymnasiums. All are business seriously affected by the now-mandatory wearing of masks to combat the spread of 19-n-COV that originated in Wuhan, Hubei Province.
The announcement came late last night. All schools...
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.
Held from...
Everyone’s favourite pig, Peppa, is at the heart of a recycling debate that presently has our friends in Shanghai gripped and talking of little else.
Yesterday, 1 July, the Shanghai Municipal Domestic Waste Management Regulations came into force, stating that rubbish need...
I.M. Pei, the Chinese-American architect, passed away on 16 May, at the age of 102. His loss is felt all over the world, but particularly here in the Yangtze River Delta part of China.
While Pei was born in Guangzhou,...
A new competition is realising an opportunity to allow individuals to use influences from their own historic heritage of creativity, manifesting their inspiration through a recently launched event in Suzhou’s “Cheongsam Town”.
In a nutshell, the contest is a chance...
Last Thursday, 13 March, 2019, a 1-day-old baby deer was spotted at the Dafeng David’s Deer nature reserve some 300 kilometres east of Nanjing on the coast of Jiangsu in Dafeng, near to Yancheng City.
The “four unlikenesses” of Dafeng...
Rugao, a city under the jurisdiction of Nantong, located in the southeast of Jiangsu province, recently registered a whopping 440 centenarians, making it one of China’s top places for longevity.
Over the last decade, the county-level city has seen a...
