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, ...

Every spring a village at the mouth of the Wanquan River hosts statesmen and executives from across Asia, in a county that also raised the women's company behind the Red Detachment of Women and gave ...

Until 2001 this city was called Tongshi, whose second character had a local pronunciation the dictionary did not recognise, ...

Scheduled to open next year with its northern terminus on Chongming Island as Shanghai’s first cross-Yangtze metro link, it appears there are no plans for the extension to Line 22. Bus connections are ...

Held in Changzhou on 4 March, the Jiangsu team faced Shanghai in the best of three games final. Not that our girls needed them, winning all three games 25:17, 25:21 and 25:23, despite losing main ...

Like doing most things in China for the first time, going to an optician is a nerve-wracking experience, especially with the required language skills. The good news, however, is the standard of ...

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 ...

This year will in all likelihood see the length of the Nanjing Metro network exceed 500 kilometres, to potential rank 7 in all of China, as the northern section of Line 5, and the extensions to both ...

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 entire southern section of Line 5 between Jinyin Avenue and Wenjing Lu will be closed from 1 January to 15 March, 2025, so that it may be connected with the Line’s northern section, putting it on ...

Professional British musician Dominic Eckersley (63) lived in Hong Kong as a child, forming an indissoluble bond with traditional Chinese culture. He believes Yangzhou can help him a lot musically, as ...

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 ...