Shenzhen Daily (Tan Xiaomi) SHENZHEN will improve its transportation, environment, security, welfare and urban planning for the 26th Summer Universiade to be held in the city in 2011, Mayor Xu Zongheng told a conference yesterday.     Residents are expected to benefit from the improvements beginning this year, the mayor said.     At a Universiade mobilization conference held at Citizens’ […]

    Shenzhen Daily (Han Ximin) IRISH businessman Liam Casey, chief executive of Shenzhen-based PCH International, was named among 10 winners of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2007 at a recent gala evening in Dublin, Ireland.     The award is the world’s most prestigious business honor for corporate leaders. Recognized globally, the award provides a unique way […]

     BEIJING, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) — International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge said the fight against doping remained at the top of the agenda of the Olympic Movement.     “I would like to reiterate the IOC’s total commitment to the fight against doping,” Rogge told reporters in a teleconference on Wednesday.     Rogge said the IOC would […]

    Shenzhen Daily (Tan Xiaomi) THE municipal environmental protection bureau Thursday blamed two power plants in Nanshan District for the acid rain that fell there Tuesday, corroding the exteriors of hundreds of buildings and vehicles.     The hardest-hit areas included Taizi Villa and Nanshan Village near the eastern section of Yueliangwan Thoroughfare. A lab test result conducted by the […]

    BEIJING, Nov. 9 — Chinese musicians are taking part in the nationwide preparation for next year’s Beijing Olympics in their own ways.     On Wednesday, pop singer You Hongming took to the gymnasium at a university in Beijing to shoot a music video for his Olympic tribute, “Hero.”     You started a project that will involve […]

Milwaukee Bucks Yi Jianlian (L) of China and Houston Rockets’ Yao Ming (R) battle for position in the fourth quarter of their NBA basketball game Nov. 9, 2007. The Rockets beat the Bucks 104-88.  (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)     BEIJING, Nov. 10 (Xinhuanet) — “Yao” is longer than “Yi”, and Houston Rockets showed it in a 104-88 victory […]

Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu attends the opening ceremony of the 8th Chinese Traditional Games of Ethnic Nationalities in Guangzhou, capital of south China’s Guangdong Province, Nov. 10, 2007.(Xinhua Photo)     GUANGZHOU, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) — One big happy family. So much it is when the 8th Chinese Traditional Games of Ethnic Nationalities opened here on […]

     BEIJING, Nov. 9 — The copyrights of music used for next year’s Beijing Olympic Games will be protected by the organizers, according to a protection plan set out yesterday by the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) and the Music Copyright Society of China (MCSC).     According to the plan, […]

    On October 25th, the Portuguese Sports Confederation held its annual Sports Gala at Estoril Casino in Lisbon – the same venue of the closing ceremony of 2004 FISU Forum. The Portuguese Presidency Minister, Pedro Silva Pereira, the Portuguese Sports Secretary of State, Laurentino Dias, the Portuguese Olympic Committee President, Vicente de Moura, FADU President, […]

Shenzhen, in keeping with its development as a modern city, has built a new industrial infrastructure, with high-tech industry and advanced manufacturing as its base and modern tertiary industry as its backbone. Industrial Structure Shenzhen has formed a modern industrial “aircraft carrier group,” which has the high-tech industry as its “aircraft carrier,” and other advanced […]