Nanjing

In the village of Nanching [China], the villagers in the summer of 1949 unstintingly spent the equivalent of about $500 in United States currency for the temple festival celebrating the birthday of the earth god [Tudi Gong], the community patron deity, while they failed to raise a similar amount for an irrigation reservoir for the village, or to raise one-third of that sum for a literacy class for underprivileged children.

Thirty years ago, the Chinese Nanching CJ-6 trainer had a button on the instructor's stick that disabled the student's brakes.

China Southern Airlines www.cs-air.com/en has launched one-stop service between Nanching and Singapore using Boeing 757 aircraft.