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Residents in Nanjing spend Qixi Festival in traditional way

The Qixi Festival, on the seventh day of the seventh month in the Chinese lunar calendar, has been treated by some people as the Chinese Valentine's Day in the recent years. Actually, it was also a festival for girls...

Best themed restaurants in Nanjing

Otara Patisserie and Coffee This is a Marvel themed restaurant and the two walls in the restaurant are filled with Marvel garage kits. It is said that each wall costs as much as 400,000 yuan ($60,000). All the...

Fireflies light up Baohua Mountain in Jurong

Summer is the season of firefly dance and these days, tens of thousands of fireflies are lighting up the summer night in Baohua Mountain in Jurong. Photographers Yang Zheng and Zhu Zhigang captured these beautiful scenes. On the photos,...

Celluloid films witness changes of the times

A white screen and a movie projector is the memory of many people. There are nearly 10,000 celluloid film copies and more than 10 movie projectors stored in the six warehouses in No.99 Middle Tongyu Road in Haian, Nantong....

NBA star cheers for ‘NBA5V5’ in Nanjing

China’s first "NBA5V5" basketball game kicked off at Wanda Plaza in Hexi, Nanjing on July 23. Former NBA player Alonzo Mourning and cheerleaders came to the competition venue. It is reported that 16 teams are invited to participate in...

Online shopping cuts number of blood donations

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday stressed that voluntary, unpaid blood donations must be increased rapidly in more than half of the world's countries.(Photo/Xinhua) The health authorities in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province, have moved the city's mobile...

32 Jiangsu athletes to compete in Rio

Thirty-two Jiangsu athletes will attend the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, which is to be open on Aug. 6. Twenty-five females and 7 males, the athletes will compete in 13 sports and 37 events. Epee fencer Xu Anqi, women's flyweight(-49kg)...

4 Chinese injured in axe attack on German train

A screenshot taken from an AP video shows the scene of the axe attack on a train near Wuerzburg in the southern German state of Bavaria, on July 18, 2016. A 17-year-old Afghan refugee wielding an axe and...

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Iranians in China become more Visible than Countable

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Why Chinese Men Can’t Quit; Smoking, Face and the State

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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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