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Tonight is the busiest of the year for Nanjing’s Confucius Temple. It’s Lantern Festival, marking the end of Chinese New Year. And so thousands will descend upon Fuzimiao to take in the beauty of red lanterns under a full...

A highlight of any Olympic Games opening ceremony is of course the Parade of Nations. Meet the young lady from Nanjing who held aloft a snowflake and walked ahead of the Philippines’ flag bearer out into the Bird’s Nest...

What do trees, fire and steel have in common? BTW, the answer is not to use the first two making the third. No, instead they are the themes of three recently-opened museums in Nanjing that provide a reason to...

The average life expectancy in Nanjing has exceeded 80 years for the first time. But Nanjingers can’t expect to live longer than anyone else in Jiangsu Province. Those are the main findings from data in the 2020 census recently...

Nanjingers in particular are rejoicing in the victory of (Eileen) Gu Ailing at the Beijing Winter Olympic Games. And that’s because of the revelation now sweeping the Southern Capital; Gu’s grandmother is none other than a true, 100 percent,...

China’s internet has of late been alive with discussion over the case of a woman in northern Jiangsu who has mothered eight children but was made to live in a hut beside her family’s house, sometimes chained up by...

China has made abundantly clear its wishes that 300 million of its citizens participate in winter sports, thanks in large part to its hosting of the at-present ongoing Olympics. And yesterday, it felt like every last one of them...

When you get off a train these days, you can expect a wait, while people faff around looking for their (expired) health code. But on this, the last day of the Chinese New Year holiday, considerable efforts have been...