Nanjinger

22/01/2026

Cute soft toys. Stuffed toys. Cuddly toys. Call them what you will, and then stop to ask from where does the craze for such cuties come? And from where do they themselves all originate? The answers are not just surprising, but also very, very local! With all that has been going on the our crazy …

06/01/2026

Half a month of pocket money spent with three or four friends and no hesitation, huddled in a private room, to sing our hearts out. But when the hours were over and the music had died, it was somehow as if our youth had along with it passed away too. So too have the KTV …

29/12/2025

Never far from the media’s headlines these past few years has been China’s property market and its falling off a cliff. However, much of it was predestined, thanks to a sure-to-fail systemic structure. And all the signs are it’s a real-estate situation about to get worse. On the 6th floor of I...

16/12/2025

Shanghai’s loss is about to be Suzhou’s gain, as the world’s number 1 soft drink maker is setting about moving its biggest eastern China production plant out of the big smoke after almost 40 years. Live in Nanjing, Hangzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou, Suzhou or just about anywhere else in the Yangtze Ri...

21/11/2025

Wuxi has been appointed as a UNESCO “City of Music”, taking the total such cities worldwide to 84. But what does it take to become such? Read the full story on The Nanjinger website!

无锡荣膺联合国教科文组织"音乐之都"称号，至此全球此类城市已达84座。一座城市需要具备哪些特质才能获此殊荣？欢迎前往《The Nanjinger》英文杂志网站阅读全文！

Their faces beamed, alive more than perhaps ever before, still fresh from the exciting recent news. And now, a foreign-internet celebrity had come to sing with them, as their brass band performed for senior residents in a Wuxi retirement community. On 31 October, 2025, Wuxi in Jiangsu Province was a...

17/11/2025

Stop 11 on the tour with Xinhua News Agency to celebrate Wuxi’s selection as a UNESCO “City of Music”; the first such city in all of China! And what better way to end an amazing 3 day trip than with a company choir performing in the master control room of CITIC Pacific Special Steel works; such a juxtaposition between musical tradition dating back thousands of years and the some of the world’s greatest, latest technology helping to answer the question, does Wuxi deserve to be a UNESCO City of Music? Unequivocally, yes!
与新华社共访无锡"音乐之城"系列报道收官之站：这座中国首个联合国"音乐之城"的压轴华章竟在钢铁厂奏响！为期三天的音乐之旅迎来最震撼尾声——中信泰富特钢总控室内，企业合唱团正放声高歌。千年音乐传统与全球顶尖工业科技在此交相辉映，恰是对"无锡何以膺选音乐之城"最铿锵的回答：当之无愧！

17/11/2025

Stop 10 on the tour with Xinhua News Agency to celebrate Wuxi’s selection as a UNESCO “City of Music”; the first such city in all of China! Q: What do harmonicas have in common with accordions? A: They are both reed instruments. And so it came to be that over the course of its 30+ year history, Jiangyin Goldencup Angels Musical Instruments progressed from producing the former to the later, to now make around 25,000 accordions annually, with half exported abroad and their most expensive model costing some US$ 5,000!

与新华社共访无锡"音乐之城"系列报道最终站：这座中国首个联合国"音乐之城"的奇迹仍在延续！问：口琴与手风琴有何共同点？答：它们皆属簧片乐器。正是这一音乐血脉的联结，让江阴金杯安琪乐器在三十余载发展历程中，从口琴制造起步，逐步转向手风琴领域，如今年产约2.5万台手风琴——其中半数远销海外，品牌旗舰型号售价更高达5000美元！

17/11/2025

Stop 9 on the tour with Xinhua News Agency to celebrate Wuxi’s selection as a UNESCO “City of Music”; the first such city in all of China! With exhibits spanning every modern form of audio recording and playback, from audio cassettes and Digital Audio Tape (DAT) to the Walkman, Discman and Minidisc, plus signed albums from mega stars such as Michal Jackson and Jimi Hendrix plus platinum discs by Madonna and U2, Kent’s Collection (回音集) in Wuxi is a veritable City of Music within a UNESCO City of Music!
与新华社共访无锡"音乐之城"系列报道第九站：这座中国首个联合国"音乐之城"竟暗藏着一座声音殿堂！位于无锡的回音集珍藏馆（Kent's Collection），从卡带、数字音频磁带到随身听、CD机、迷你光碟，纵览现代音频录制播放演进史，更珍藏迈克尔·杰克逊与吉米·亨德里克斯的亲笔签名专辑，以及麦当娜、U2乐队的白金唱片——这处音乐宝库，堪称"音乐之城"中的"音乐秘境"！

17/11/2025

Stop 8 on the tour with Xinhua News Agency to celebrate Wuxi’s selection as a UNESCO “City of Music”; the first such city in all of China! An ordinary suburb is the surprising home for the Wuxi National Orchestra. Guo Pan, the Orchestra’s Assistant Conductor, is also somewhat surprising for her youth in a professional mostly dominated by older males. Her dreams are consolidated by Wuxi’s UNESCO recent distinction. Could it perhaps increase her chances of conducting for China? “Of course!”, she laughs.
与新华社共访无锡"音乐之城"系列报道第八站：这座中国首个联合国"音乐之城"竟藏龙卧虎！在看似寻常的城郊地带，竟坐落着无锡民族乐团的大本营。乐团助理指挥郭盼同样令人惊叹——在资深男性主导的指挥界，这位年轻指挥家的出现犹如清风拂面。无锡荣膺"音乐之城"称号让她的梦想更加坚定。问及这是否会增添她执棒国家级演出的机会，她朗声笑道："当然会！"

16/11/2025

Stop 7 on the tour with Xinhua News Agency to celebrate Wuxi’s selection as a UNESCO “City of Music”; the first such city in all of China! Sights and sounds; the visual delight of an ocean’s waves are almost insignificant without the waves of sound they create. These are the characteristics to be explored in the century-old building that is now the Sound Hall within Wuxi’s Yingyueli in Huishan. Don a pair of headphones to hear, for example, the Yangtze River or all genres of music with tales to tell. Happily, plenty of vinyl records for sale too!
与新华社共访无锡"音乐之城"系列报道第七站：这座中国首个联合国"音乐之城"正演绎视听共鸣的哲学！位于惠山映月里的声学艺术馆，由百年历史建筑改造而成，在此探寻「视听共生」的奥秘——若无浪涛声相伴，再壮阔的海景也将失色。戴上耳机，长江奔涌的脉络、各流派音乐背后的故事在耳畔缓缓流淌。更令人欣喜的是，这里还陈列着众多可供收藏的黑胶唱片！