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So Much Fun for Women’s Day 2025 in Nanjing!

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...

Nanjing-Beijing by Train; Soon Officially Faster than by Plane!

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:...

Nanjing Metro Line 7; Complete, Open & Very Very Deep

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...

Earthrise @56; and the Role Played by Nanjing & NASA in it

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...

Anniversary 87; Nanjing Massacre Victims’ Families Centre Stage

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...

“Rape of Nanking” Author Acknowledged 20 Years after Death

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,...

Foreigners Coming to Nanjing Return to Near Pre-COVID Levels

Certainly it can be felt on the streets of Nanjing these days. Our city is once again “en vogue” with foreigners. After a 5-year hiatus, the number of visitors to the Southern Capital has returned, almost, to pre-Pandemic levels. Back...

Nanjing-Melbourne Flight Marks 45 Years as Sister State Friends

Check in counters might be the oddest of places to hold an anniversary celebration for 45 years of ties between Jiangsu and the state of Victoria in Australia. But not when the first flight to Melbourne from Nanjing in...

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So Much Fun for Women’s Day 2025 in Nanjing!

While the world may know about all the electric cars which we drive, or China's enormous wind farms, perhaps...

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...

Greenpeace Pulls in Media Nationwide to Dissect IPCC in Hangzhou

Global campaigning network Greenpeace was the driving force for a forum held in Hangzhou yesterday, which, together with local...

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