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Woman in Xuzhou Helps Mother Find Relatives 40 Years on; Seeks Own Biological Parents

Luna, born around 1988, blood type O, height 168 cm, healthy with dark skin and a whorl on the head, has no birthmarks and a large black mole in the middle of the outer side of her left foot....

Xuzhou People Conflicted as Party Secretary Investigated & Jail Time Awaits

It’s commonly held among local people that former Secretary and celebrity Zhou Tiegen did much good for Xuzhou and brought its economy to new heights. ¥640-missing millions for secretly-produced steel appears to have been his downfall. Full story (in...

43YO Lady Completes Xuzhou Half Marathon 2 Days after Riding 720KM Home

After setting out from Beijing on 1 September and cycling for 5 and half days to her hometown in Anhui, Zhang Xin ran a half marathon in the Xuzhou Garden Expo Park on the evening of September 8, realising...

Queues around the Block in Xuzhou for 50 Days of Free Public Welfare Lunch 

A dish with two steamed buns is the lunch prepared by Long Si for each beneficiary, a good deed inspired by hearing of a 70 year old man who picks up waste for a living, whose wife is bedridden,...

Deep Earth Science & Engineering Project in Xuzhou Selected as “Future Space” 

With resources increasingly scarce worldwide, mining will inevitably go deep. Developing and utilising the space deep beneath has therefore become a major national strategic scientific research project for the Yunlong Lake Laboratory. Full story (in Chinese) via this link;...

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