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News from Nanjing city and around Jiangsu
南京及江苏省新闻
Drunk lottery winner attempts to buy bride on train
[08 Feb. 2010]
When 26 year old Nanjing worker Zhang Yong was unable to buy a house for him and the love of his life should they marry, his girlfriend became betrothed to another. Against all odds, at the end of 2009, Zhang won the lottery. After buying two houses, he put ¥500,000 from his bank into a suitcase and boarded a train to Anhui province, in an attempt to buy back is love. On board the train however, Zhang became drunk and started accosting beautiful girls on board, pushing wads of ¥100 notes into their hands, begging them to marry him. [more]
Giant Spring Festival candles for Suzhou monastery
[08 Feb. 2010]
At the thousand year old buddhist Hanshan Temple in Suzhou, monks have been lighting 1.8 metre high candles as part of preparations for the coming Chinese new year celebration. The candles are capable of sustaining themselves for 3 months. [more]
Yangzhou tests out lanterns for Shanghai Expo
[06 Feb. 2010]
With just over 80 days until the Shanghai Expo and as we head closer to lantern season in China, Yangzhou city is conducting trial illuminations of gigantic lanterns that are earmarked for decorating the Expo. It is thought that the lanterns will also go on display at the Yuyuan Gardens in Shanghai during Spring Festival. [more]
International brand name ventures to second tier city Nanjing
[06 Feb. 2010]
While Nanjing people could never imagine themselves as "second-tier", the larger international brand names have been solely concentrating their efforts on first-tier cities including Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou. However, as Nanjing becomes more wealthy; opening more and more luxury shopping malls, so the brands come to fill them. The latest example is Italian brand Bottega Veneta who has opened their first second-tier location in Nanjing in the not so second-tier Orient Shopping Centre. [more]
Jiangsu home for world's largest off-shore wind farm
[05 Feb. 2010]
Construction is soon to begin on what will be the world's largest off-shore power station, lying in east central Jiangsu province on the mudflats and shoreline near Dongtai. With 84 3.6MW off-shore wind turbines covering an area of 150 square kilometers, the power station shall be capable of generating 2 billion kWh of electricity per year. [more]
Nanjing confiscates Hong Kong developer's land in Xianlin
[05 Feb. 2010]
Hong Kong developer Wharf and the China Merchants Group have lost a site in Nanjing while Chinese authorities stick to their promises to confiscate unpaid for or undeveloped land in a bid to stop companies hoarding sites in order to push up housing prices. The developer paid 1.6 times the asking price, some ¥2.41 billion for the 3.6 million square foot plot in Nanjing's Xianlin district. [more]
Upbeat start to 2010 for Lianyungang Port
[05 Feb. 2010]
The eyes of analysts everywhere are now turning to statistics for January as economic indicators for China in 2010. The north eastern Jiangsu city of Lianyungang has reported an impressive growth in sea freight traffic for the first month of the year. Statistics from Lianyungang Port Group Ltd. reveal an increase of 17 percent on January 2009. [more]
Roll up! Roll Up! Apples going for just ¥8800!
[04 Feb. 2010]
It is 1.5kg in weight, the size of a volleyball, has a gold Buddha painted on it and costs ¥8800. The apple which was on display in a department store in the Suzhou Industrial Park has already been sold! [more]
Jiangsu expected to spend ¥90 billion on infrastructure in 2010
[04 Feb. 2010]
Jiangsu province's investment in infrastructure projects grew by 14.6% in 2009, and this year shall top ¥90 billion. Key projects include the Taizhou Yangtze River Bridge, the high speed rail link from Beijing to Shanghai and airports in Nanjing, Xuzhou, Wuxi and Nantong. [more]
Wuxi, the new home of baseball in China!
[04 Feb. 2010]
Major League Baseball International is to open its very first Development Center in China, in Jiangsu's Wuxi city. The center provides professional baseball training for middle school and high school-aged students within an academic school environment; and builds on Wuxi's reputation as leading the way for the development of baseball in China. The MLBI Development Center is to be located in the Dongbeitang High School in Wuxi's Xishan District and shall open on 23rd September. [more]
China and Japan reach some agreement over war time history - Japan admits 1937 Nanjing Massacre did occur
[03 Feb. 2010]
The Institute of Modern History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Japan Institute of International Affairs have for the past three years been engaged in joint-history study project. Now, in a report released on 31st January, Japanese commissioners have admitted the 1937-1945 Sino-Japanese war was an "act of aggression" committed by Japan that caused massive damage to the Chinese people. They further admitted that the 1937 Nanjing Massacre did occur and involved "mass killings". [more]
Agricultural Bank of China to loan ¥10 bn to Jiangsu agricultural industries
[03 Feb. 2010]
The Council of Agriculture of Jiangsu and the Argricultural Bank of China have signed a strategic cooperation framework that sees the bank provide a three-year credit line of ¥10 billion in addition to various financial services to local Jiangsu enterprises and cooperative organizations as recommended by the council. [more]
Changzhou gears up to promote tourism
[03 Feb. 2010]
The Changzhou Tourism Promotion Center and Changzhou Chunqiu International Tourism Plaza are two new centres which have opened on the same day in Changzhou. Until now, the city has lagged behind its neighbours in promoting it and its Jiangsu environs to tourists and locals alike. That is set to change as Changzhou establishes a public service platform for tourism, in which six tourism centres shall join efforts to provide a broad range of tourism related services to domestic and foreign tourists. [more]
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