Although SND was in existence when SIP started in 1994, Suzhou city and Jiangsu provincial governments assured Singapore of their wholehearted support for SIP, the flagship project for both countries.
Most of the province is less than 150 feet (45 metres) above sea level, making Jiangsu the lowest and flattest of the provinces.
With more than 14,000 miles (22,500 km) of inland waterways, Jiangsu carries more than one-fourth of its goods by water.
Came in October, as Shanghai TV anchor Zhou Liang was dismissed for calling visiting Jiangsu Sainty players "dogs" before their game against Shanghai Shenhua.
Last summer, the overuse of growth chemicals led to acres of spoiled watermelons in Jiangsu province.
The government of Jiage in Jiangsu province recently learned of the Little Donkey Farm and asked Shi Yan to help them set up a CSA farm, which they named Big Buffalo.
Zhou denied using the term until a clip emerged of him reading out the team lineup: "No1 is north Jiangsu dog, No2 a north Jiangsu dog, No3 is a north Jiangsu dog from Brazil, No6 is a north Jiangsu dog from Lebanon … No24 is the last north Jiangsu dog".
One, for use at primary schools in Jiangsu province, of which Nanjing is the capital, is titled "Memory of Blood and Fire".
It said that downstream of Anhui, in Jiangsu province, pollution in the Huai itself had caused more than $25m of damage to crops in 2000 and affected the drinking water of 2.4m people.The drought is not helping.
Peasants, it said, should have the right to negotiate their own price for land appropriated from them.Isolated groups of peasants elsewhere followed suit, including some in Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Sichuan and Tianjin.
Their favoured target was "If You Are the One", a wildly successful programme on a satellite channel in the eastern province of Jiangsu, which included female contestants who dared to admit that the main quality they sought in a husband was that he be rich.
