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What’s Nanjing Students’ Role in Safety of Chinese Astronauts?

When a mighty Chinese rocket launched earlier today, the three astronauts aboard had many tasks ahead. Among them, while they spend 3 months in space, is delivering data for experiments developed by students and professors in Nanjing. China’s Shenzhou 12...

Nanjing Cop Cradles Child Charging to ICU

A Nanjing policeman became something of a hero in the past few days, helping to save the life of a young boy by carrying him in his arms and sprinting at full pelt to a nearby hospital in the...

Are Nanjingers the Cheapest People in China?

Nanjingers certainly like a bargain. And it’s no secret; the little radishes are well known for their frugality all over the country. But now it’s official; turns out they like the cheap stuff more than anyone else in all...

Let’s Graduate! Time to Fire Some Missiles for Nanjing Students

Just as millions have sat the University Entrance Examination, so too others have recently graduated. For some Nanjing students wearing camouflage, this has entailed real-life, live-fire exercises with some of the country’s most sophisticated weaponry. They’re called the Red Arrows....

Con Man Nets ¥2.73 Million After 179 Lies (to the Same Woman)

Fact is stranger than fiction. No one could make up the convoluted tale of an elder man who over the course of several years, succeeded in defrauding one lady out of ¥2.73 million. That the man fooled her 179...

Cool Brands at Cheap Prices! Duty Free Store Opens in Nanjing

Many people flock to Sanya for not just the beaches, but also the duty free shop. Well, Nanjing now has its own too. But is the 1960s Rolls Royce on display just inside the front door the most interesting...

6 Dead, 14 Injured in Anhui Weekend Stabbing Spree

The city of Anqing in nearby Anhui Province was the setting for carnage this past weekend, as a young man’s disillusionment turned quickly to homicidal intention. When it was all over, six people were left dead and a further...

Is this the Prettiest Loo in Jiangsu?

Well, maybe not Jiangsu, but perhaps Nanjing. Forgive us; the rhyme was too irresistible. Nevertheless, recent local efforts at sprucing up those most essential of public facilities are worthy of mention. And a paper published 2 years ago today...

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Tasty Solutions on the Menu at Shanghai Climate Week

Shanghai Climate Week coincides with Earth Day and highlights China's dual-carbon commitments. And while its object as also a...

Why is the Shanghai Government Sniffing around Our Back Yard? 

Shanghai-Nanjing Innovation Belt emerges, with Putuo District driving cross-regional collaboration to boost economic growth for 50+ million people Putuo officials...

Nanjing’s International Flights; All Change for Summer Schedule

April is rolling around, and with it comes a new schedule for flights in and out of Nanjing Lukou...

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