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unusual facts about Jiangsu province



2010 Nanjing chemical plant explosion

The 2010 Nanjing chemical plant explosion occurred on July 28, 2010 in Qixia District, Nanjing, Jiangsu province, People's Republic of China.

Beggar's Chicken

Beggar's Chicken is a dish from Changshu, a city in China's Jiangsu province that is famous for its delicious taste.

Chinese coinage in the Ming Dynasty

He made Yingtian (today's Nanjing, in Jiangsu province) the capital and named the reigning dynasty as Ming.

High School Affiliated to Nanjing Normal University Jiangning Campus

More than 95% of the students in the Jiangning Campus have Chinese Citizenship, mainly local students from Jiangning and the urban area of Nanjing(It requires less grade in the Nanjing High School Entrance Examination to enter Jiangning Campus than the Urban campus of High School Affiliated to Nanjing Normal University), besides there are students from Yancheng, Xuzhou, Huai'an and other places in Jiangsu Province.

Jiang Ziwen

Originally from Guangling, now a district of Yangzhou in Jiangsu Province, he became addicted to wine and women, but was nonetheless recognized for his unusual phrenology.

Li Rongrong

Born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, Li graduated from department of chemical engineering of Tianjin University, majoring in electro-chemistry.

Nanjing Ninghai Middle School

Nanjing Ninghai Middle School, founded in 1890 as Wen Zheng Academy, is a middle school in Jiangsu Province, China.

Yuhuatai Senior High School

As a full-time senior high school, Yuhuatai Senior High School is under the direct jurisdiction of Yuhuatai Euducation Bureau, which is classified as one of the key high schools in Nanjing, China, in 1997 and as one of the key high schools in Jiangsu Province in 1999.

Zhang Jiaxiang

Zhang Jiaxiang, astronomer, was born in Oct. 1932 in Nanjing, Jiangsu province.


see also

8th Golden Eagle Awards

The 8th Golden Eagle Awards were held June November 1, 1990, in Nanjing, Jiangsu province.

Changzhou No. 2 High School

It nurtured many eminient figures like Zhu Muzhi (Chinese Communist news activist), Wu Ze (a famous historian), Yu Yunjie (a famous painter), and Yuan Ying (a famous writer), creating improved education in regions south of the Yangtze River (one of the famous mother rivers in Jiangsu Province).

Hua Tianyou

Born Hua Tingyou (滑庭友) in Huaiyin, Jiangsu province in 1901, Hua graduated from the No. 6 Normal School of Jiangsu Province in 1924.

Li Rongrong

Since 1986, he had served as vice director of economics commission of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, director of light manufacturing bureau, director of planning commission of the city, and vice director of economics planning commission of Jiangsu.

Nanjing Education and Technology Channel

Nanjing Education and Technology Channel (Chinese:南京教育科技频道 Pinyin:Nánjīng jiàoyǜ kējì píndào) is a television channel in Jiangsu Province, China, owned by Nanjing Broadcast and Television Corporation.

Nantong blue calico

Nantong blue calico printing and dyeing has been practiced for centuries in most parts of Nantong City, Jiangsu Province, China.

Ning

Nanjing, abbreviated as Ning, capital of Jiangsu Province, China

Peter Bakowski

He has been writer-in-residence at the B.R. Whiting Library in Rome; the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris; the University of Macau; Soochow University, Jiangsu Province, China; the Katherine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre in Greenmount, Western Australia; the Hobart Writer’s Cottage in Battery Point, Tasmania; the Arthur Boyd Estate of “Bundanon” near Nowra, New South Wales; the Broken Hill Poetry Festival, New South Wales.

Qi Lu

Lu was born in Shanghai, he was sent to live with his grandparents in a remote village in Jiangsu Province by his parents during the Cultural Revolution.

Qian Liren

Born in 1924 in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province, Qian had family origins in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, and is a documented descendant of the kings of Wuyue.

Sinojackia xylocarpa

It is endemic to eastern China in Jiangsu province, where it occurs at altitudes of 500–800 m.

Xuanwu District, Nanjing

More than 70 academics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering are located in Jiangsu Province, almost half of them in Xuanwu District.

Yuantong

Yuantong Station (元通), a railway station on lines 1 and 2 of the Nanjing Metro, in Jiangsu province, China