http://www.chinatravel.com/rssRSS-BoardFri 27 Oct 2011 3:46:00 GMTdavidhttp://www.chinatravel.com/jiangsu/Jiangsu is the coastal Chinese province that is sandwiched in between Shanghai Municipality to the south and Shandong Province to the north. The coast here switches to a southeast-to-northwest orientation from the southwest-to-northeast orientation that characteristizes both Shandong Province and the Chinese coast below Shanghai. The origin of the name, Jiangsu (two characters in Chinese, jiang and su) is from the province's two major prefecture level cities at the time, Jiangning* and Suzhou, i...Tue 18 Oct 2010 3:28:00 GMThttp://www.chinatravel.com/jiangsu/transport.htm...Tue 21 Apr 2008 0:00:00 GMTchinatravel http://www.chinatravel.com/jiangsu/transport.htmThere are seven civil aviation airports throughout the whole province, namely, Nanjing Lukou International Airprot, Changzhou Benniu Airport, Wuxi Shuofang Airport, Nantong Xingdong Airport, Yancheng Nanyang Airport, Liangyungang Baitafu Airport, Xuzhou Guanyin Airport. Nanjing Lukou International Airport has flights to and from various cities in the world. Nanjing Lukou Airport Location: Nanjing Lukou International Airport is located in Loukou Town, Jiangning District in the southeast of Nanj...Tue 21 Apr 2008 0:00:00 GMTchinatravel http://www.chinatravel.com/jiangsu/transport.htmBy the end of 2005, Jiangsu has built 11 freeways that extend to other provinces. At the present, the network of both built freeways and freeways under construction in the province has the overall arrangement of four lines from north to south, four from west to east, and four linking through. The mileage of the freeways in Jiangsu ranks the third in the whole country, and the density of traffic comes the first in China. All provincial cities and over 80% of towns have freeways passing through th...Tue 21 Apr 2008 0:00:00 GMTchinatravel http://www.chinatravel.com/jiangsu/transport.htmThe main railways that extend through Jiangsu Province are Jinghu (Beijing-Shanghai) Railway, Longhai Railway, Ningtong Railway, Ningqi Railway and Xinchang Railway. Among the 13 provincial cities, the downtown areas of these cities all have railways except for Suqian. Nanjing and Xuzhou are the pivot of railway communication in the northern part of Jiangsu and the southern part of it respectively. Jinghu Railway, Ningtong Railway and Ningqi Railway converge in Nanjing. Nnajing railway stations...Tue 21 Apr 2008 0:00:00 GMTchinatravel http://www.chinatravel.com/jiangsu/transport.htmTransportation in Jiangsu develops rapidly andnowadays, the comprehensive transportation network extending to all parts of the province has been formed....Thu 27 Feb 2008 0:00:00 GMThemikehttp://www.chinatravel.com/jiangsu/minorities-festival.htmPeople in Jiangsu celebrate a lot of festivals throughout the year....Sat 22 Feb 2008 3:01:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/jiangsu/transport.htm Geography Jiangsu is a coastal province located in East China. It is adjacent to the Yellow Sea in the east, to Anhui Province in the west, to Shandong Province in the north, to Zhejiang Province in the south, and to Shanghai in the east. It covers an area of 102,600 square kilometers, which takes up 1.06% of the total area in China. The provincial topography is characteristic of plains. About 69% of the total area in the province is plains that consist of the Plain of South Jiangsu, the Jian...Sat 22 Feb 2008 3:01:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/jiangsu/transport.htmJiangsu Specialties Baihua (One Hundred Flowers) Wine Baihua wine is a special local wine of Zhenjiang. It has the flavor of sour, sweet, bitter and hot. Sticky rice, fine wheat, and nearly one hundred wild flowers are brewed to make the wine. The color of the wine is dark yellow. The wine has faint scent, and is fragrant. It is comparatively rich in sugar, and low in alcohol. It is helpful for the flow of blood, and it can also warm the stomach and ward off cold. Thus, it is a tonic fo...Sat 22 Feb 2008 3:01:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/jiangsu/transport.htmFood The main cuisines in Jiangsu Province include Huaiyang (Huai’an and Yangzhou) cuisine, Jinling (Nanjing) cuisine, Suxi (Suzhou and Wuxi) cuisine, Xuhai (Xuzhou and Lianyungang) cuisine, and others with local flavor. The most famous dishes are Nanjing pressed salted duck, Yangzhou duck, Yangzhou prickled vegetables, Yangzhou steamed stuffed bun, thousand-layer oily cake as well as candies and cakes in Suzhou that are sweet, tender, crisp and soft. Specialties： Bean curd soup with...