Nanjing News

April is rolling around, and with it comes a new schedule for flights in and out of Nanjing Lukou International Airport. There is much change too, with the times of flights altered, in some cases drastically, and others culled...

Four Western lowland gorillas, N’akouh, Nukta, N’kato and Madiba, arrived in Nanjing from the Netherlands after a 10.5-hour flight.   The gorillas, accompanied by Dutch keepers, underwent quarantine and now reside in Hongshan Forest Zoo’s African Rainforest Pavilion.   They receive 40kg of fresh...

While the world may know about all the electric cars which we drive, or China's enormous wind farms, perhaps it has a little less of an idea about the ESG efforts which are taking place at the local level. As...

High-speed rail revolution: Nanjing will benefit from new 400 km/h CR450 trains, reducing Beijing-Nanjing travel time to 2 hours 47 minutes, surpassing planes. Cutting-edge design: Prototypes feature streamlined noses, bogie enclosures, and 10% lighter weight, enhancing speed and efficiency. Advanced technology:...

Today marked another milestone in the evolution of our City’s mass transit system, as the Nanjing Metro network put into operation another 11 kilometres of track, to give the entire system a length of 484 kilometres. And some awe-inspiring...

This day, 56 years ago, a remarkable photograph was taken. The photographer was a man who’d spent time in Nanjing as a 4 year old as war raged. The image came to be known as “Earthrise”; it kicked started...

With its traditional ceremonial solemnity, the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders’ annual recognition of the ransacking of Nanjing in 1937 took place today. But more clouds now loom; that soon no one will...

Today marks 20 years since the death of Iris Chang, author of “The Rape of Nanking” that brought a knowledge of the Nanjing Massacre to a broad international audience after its publication in 1997. Today is marked here in Nanjing,...