With people spending more time in Nanjing this year than ever before, many have also noticed that the city’s skies have been remarkably clear for the bulk of 2020. It’s no illusion, and the industrial shutdown of early this...

Talk of the town in Nanjing of late has been the upcoming winter, with much of the populace convincing themselves (and others) that the cold spell of 2020/21 is going to be a shocker. Scientific data, on the other...

While we speed along in a high-speed train on our way to Shanghai through the water towns of southern Jiangsu Province; Wuxi, Suzhou et al, it’s sobering to think that a little more than a decade ago, not only...

One of the great joys of leaving my post as a senior manager in a British university 6 years ago was the freedom to take up some of the many invitations I had been receiving for years to visit...

Today, 25 November, is International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Good timing then for Nanjing to launch an initiative calling for "zero tolerance" of domestic abuse, supported by municipal and local government organs, together with public...

Nanjing’s public buses are making the headlines today, for their benevolent efforts at teaching children in kindergarten the importance of sustainability in urban transport and for helping to reunite a pensioner with a large amount of misplaced cash. On Tuesday...