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Wuxi girl wins 2 champions at Blackpool Dance Festival

The Blackpool Dance Festival has witnessed 91 competitions. This year, the inaugural Blackpool Dance Festival China was held in Shanghai. Wuxi girl Lou Weijia won the championships in two female solo competitions, Cha Cha and Rumba. Lou starts her...

American athlete searches for biological parents in Nanjing

Scout Bassett (Chinese name Zhu Fuzhi), an athlete who took part in the women's long jump and 100-meter dash at Rio Paralympic Games, came to Nanjing to search for her relatives on Sep 26. Probably because...

It’s Nanjing time now in London!

A flash mob themed at Kunqun Opera Peony Pavilion was staged at the British Library on Sept 20, London time, marking the start of the Nanjing Week at 2016 London Design Festival. As a promotion ambassador, Nanjing-based book designer...

20 residents try Metro Line 2 extention

Some 20 local residents are invited to take a trial ride on the extension of Metro Line 2 in Suzhou today. They boarded at Baodai Bridge Station and took a ride to Moon Bay Station and Sangtian Island Station....

Hong Kong undergraduates marveled by Huallywood fun

Hong Kong students surround the model of the state-of-the-art film studio with eager curiosity in Huallywood Wuxi Studios, on Aug 11. Sixty Hong Kong students enjoying an exchange program to Jiangsu province visited Wuxi's Huallywood, a state-of-the-art film studio,...

College students to ‘follow the footsteps ‘ of Sun Yat-sen

A group of 40 university students from Nanjing and Taiwan gathered in Nanjing to participate in a summer camp activity named “follow the footsteps of Sun Yat-sen” on Aug 23. The students made paper statues of Sun together at...

Former Residence of Zhou Enlai

Former Residence of Zhou Enlai in Huai'an was built in the late Qing dynasty and has two main dwelling areas, containing 32 rooms. Zhou, China's first premier, spent his childhood at the house before leaving his hometown to pursue...

89-year-old sports fan plans to draw 108 national flags as memory aid

An 89-year-old man from eastern China's Jiangsu province has drawn more than 60 national flags on cardboard in order to distinguish the nationalities of various athletes during the 2016 Rio Olympics, Yangtze Evening News reported. The man, surnamed Wu,...

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