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Suzhou Recognises Crowd Funded Dilapidated Housing Reconstruction Project 

Eight tenants recently received the title deeds and keys to that which is Suzhou’s first self-restorative renewal project self-financed by property owners in Xidun New Village. Building 21 therein, dating from the late 70s, was identified as dilapidated in...

Key Figure in Sanxingdui Excavations to Speak in Suzhou on 22 March

Wang Wei, who served as leader of the archaeological consulting expert group during the excavations of Sanxingdui, will speak at 14:30 on 22 March at Suzhou Poly Grand Theatre on the relationship between archaeology and Chinese civilisation. Full story (in Chinese) via this...

Changshu Institute of Technology is Now Officially Suzhou Institute of Technology

The Institute oddly began life as Suzhou Normal College, founded in 1958, to then merge with Changshu Vocational University to become Changshu Higher Vocational College in 1989, and latterly Changshu Institute of Technology in 2004. Full story (in Chinese) via this...

Job Swap in Suzhou Sees Local Officialdom Take on Roles in Gig Economy

Some seven local officials took part in the job swap, taking up roles as ride-hailing drivers or delivery workers, as a means to better understand their roles. The campaign comes as China’s “Two Sessions” discuss the needs of those...

Access all Areas, but Not for Dinner! The Fish Worth ¥700,000

Trust me; choose a career as a journalist. You get to see a whole lot of stuff that’s off limits to most. Like a shoal of fish that has never had it so good. When I woke up yesterday, little...

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