Chinese road trippers are swapping hotel rooms for the back seats of their own cars, folding them flat into beds and parking overnight at service stations, scenic car parks and even hotel grounds, ...

Jiangmen’s government banned pet dogs from public places across its three urban districts in August 2011, after rabies had killed 42 people in the preceding three years; officials set aside a 13 acre ...

A typhoon made landfall near Shantou at nine o’clock at night on 2 August 1922, with its lowest recorded pressure at 932 hectopascals and winds reaching around 100 miles an hour; the storm surge that ...

Tao Yuanming wrote, in 365 AD, about a fisherman who stumbled into a hidden valley of blossoming peach trees, stayed for days, and marked his route home so carefully that he still could never find his ...

The author's happiness is evident as he gets to pull and consume the first glass of hand pulled ale in Nanjing at Ladder Bar Serving beer from a hand pump (also known as a beer engine) is a curiously ...

Hangzhou is Zhejiang’s capital, one of China’s best-known cities and its capital of e-commerce, but it does not rely on fame alone. It has old water, new money and a city centre that has learned how ...

Chizhou sits in south-west Anhui and does not try to be everything at once. It is a city of hills, river valleys and mountain tourism; a place where geography still matters, and where Jiuhuashan gives ...

Nearly 3,000 lightning strikes in Nanjing over a short period were widely shared of late, with the lack of rain and thunder prompting some spiritually-minded locals to speculate, “I wonder which ...

The Line S1 train in the afternoon of 1 July was held up after passengers heard an explosion. With another loud bang later stopping the train altogether short of Lukou Airport, passengers were ...

The deal sees Nanjing Tech University joining forces with Swansea University to commence double undergraduate and postgraduate engineering programs in September, 2025, with a capacity for 1,200 ...

Speaking of their collaboration with the Swiss company Idorsia, CEO of Simcere Pharmaceutical said, “Quviviq represents a groundbreaking innovation in global sleep medicine”. It is said the therapy is ...

Asleep on the curb, his phone having slipped to the roadside and asked why he had stayed, Xiao Xinjian said, “It’s far from home; I want to be here more, like taking an exam with her”. The Nanjinger ...