(2000 est. pop. 74.4 million). Accounting for only 1.1 percent of China's territory, Jiangsu is the fifth most populous and the fifth most densely populated province, with a population of some 74.4 million in 2000. Located on the eastern...

Coordinates: 33°0′N, 120°0′E Jiangsu (help·info) (simplified Chinese: 江苏; traditional Chinese: 江蘇; pinyin: Jiāngsū; Wade-Giles: Chiang-su; Postal map spelling: Kiangsu) is a province of the People's Republic of China, located along...

Jiangsu province in East China is one of the most economically and socially developed provinces in the country. It is divided into at least two distinct regions. North Jiangsu (Subei) has more in common with the neighboring province of Shandong which, until recently...

The chemical industry in Jiangsu, one of China's big chemical industry provinces, will conduct major restructuring. Five chemical bases will be established after around 10 years' efforts. The five chemical bases having development priority in the next 10 years in Jiangsu chemical...

Water supplies to 200,000 people in eastern China were cut for 40 hours due to groundwater pollution, allegedly from chemical plants, state media reported Wednesday.Taps ran dry from Monday to Wednesday in Shuyang, a city in Jiangsu province where a massive outbreak of blue-green algae...

The father of a Chinese man who died of bird flu has been infected with the virus that causes the disease, the World Health Organization confirmed Friday, saying it could not rule out the possibility of human-to-human infection.Joanna Brent, a Beijing-based WHO spokeswoman, said the...