News from around Jiangsu Province in eastern China and its 13 cities therein; Nanjing, Wuxi, Xuzhou, Changzhou, Suzhou, Nantong, Lianyungang, Huai’an, Yancheng, Yangzhou, Zhenjiang, Taizhou and Suqian.
Huai’an is the city that lies slap bang in the middle of Jiangsu Province. It is also the birthplace of China’s first premier under the CCP, Zhou Enlai. But that leader’s admirable legacy hasn’t rubbed off very well on...
With an intoxicated teenage boy dead after falling from a first floor balcony, a court has finally ruled on the case. The restaurant that first served him alcohol is responsible. Yet, coming to that conclusion is a little more complicated...
Fancy a look at the train driver’s view ahead during a journey on the new Yangtze River Shanghai-Nanjing High-speed Railway at super-high speed, as if the train was travelling at over two-and-a-half-thousand kilometres per hour?
The video, released yesterday, 6...
Unless you are a celebrity, everyone does not get their 15 minutes of fame. But some people, against the odds, get it more than once. And for one 90s generation girl in Jiangsu, it has been for the odd...
Not too hot, not too cold; perfect for sitting outside enjoying BBQ and beer. And our part of China is pretty much perfect for doing so, for much of the year, meaning people in Nanjing and Jiangsu get through...
Jiangsu is visited by more tornados than any other part of China. July of last year saw four occur on just one day. But why? And where are the Province’s tornado hotspots? And what should we do if we...
Under the gaze of today’s super-tall wind turbines transitioning us from fossil fuels, in Jiangsu there has been discovered evidence of our first polluting efforts 7,000 years ago; a friction-based, fire-making device from the now earliest known Neolithic site...
This year marks the 10th anniversary of China’s Belt & Road Initiative, with the Middle East as an important node along it. In our own Jiangsu, Wuxi has of late been busy stepping up its increasingly-solid economic and trade...