ITALY’S Guido Cappellini won the Shenzhen race of the F1 Powerboat World Championship yesterday at Shenzhen Bay, with a time of 57 minutes and 39.11 seconds. The powerboat race was one of two international water sports events which concluded in Shenzhen yesterday, with the three-day China Cup International Regatta (CCIR) ending in Daya Bay on […]

    Shenzhen Daily (Han Ximin) AMBASSADORS from two African countries were in Shenzhen yesterday, seeking to attract investments for their respective nations.     Victor Sikonina, the Madagascan ambassador to China, called on Shenzhen companies to invest in Madagascar’s infrastructure, tourism and telecommunications sectors during the Seventh Shenzhen Beach Day yesterday.     This was Sikonina’s fourth visit to Shenzhen, but […]

    Shenzhen Daily (Han Ximin) THE Shenzhen Environmental Protection Bureau will impose stricter rules to control car emissions and upgrade power stations that use heavy oil, the main sources of air pollution.     “The city will speed up the elimination of old, heavy duty vehicles and trucks that use diesel and discharge sulfur dioxide and nitrogen […]

By Sportswriter Ma Bangjie BEIJING, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) — Elisabeth Loisel claimed to lift the Chinese women’s football national team to the world top six on Sunday when she was unveiled as the seventh head coach of the Chinese side over four years. The Chinese local media was taken a back when the 44-year-old former […]

A stone boundary marker discovered in Xichong, Longgang District, in March this year was handed over to the city’s cultural heritage administration at a ceremony Wednesday. The white granite marker is so far the only one found in Shenzhen that indicates China’s southern maritime boundary. With both Chinese and English inscriptions, the marker was erected […]

    FIFA President Sepp Blatter shows the name of Brazil as host country chosen for the FIFA World Cup 2014 during a news conference at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich Oct. 30, 2007. (Xinhua/AFP Photo) GENEVA, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) — The world football governing body, FIFA, announced on Tuesday that Brazil will be the country to […]

China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industry Fair (ICIF) It is abbreviated as China International Cultural Industry Fair and is also a part of UFI, mutually sponsored by Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China, Ministry of Commerce, State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, General Administration of Press and Publication of the People’s Republic […]

There are 24 main cultural and art facilities at the municipal level, constructed or under construction, covering a total area of 0.4088 million square meters and the total construction area of approximately 0.7012 million square meters and the total investment of 4.795 billion RMB yuan or so. Cultural centers, libraries, theaters and cinemas are scattered […]

Shenzhen has acquired a series of achievements in international piano competitions. Li Yundi won the first award of Chopin International Piano Competition, thus creating a history by filling in the blank without the first prize winner for 13 consecutive years. Chen Sa and Zhang Hao and some other internationally first class piano talents have successively […]

Shenzhen is one of the Animated Cartoons Industry Bases and also the earliest city to process animation films for overseas customers. In the middle of 1980s, the first Hong Kong invested Animated Emerald Co., Ltd settled down in Shenzhen and in the prime of its development it attracted and retained nearly 70% of animation design […]