SHENZHEN residents have been invited to vote for the 10 Happiest Chinese Cities after the campaign’s organizers announced a shortlist of 35 mainland cities including Shenzhen, and published the criteria and standards for selection in major newspapers Thursday. Votes can be cast online at www.lwdf.cn, www.szmg.com.cn and www.sznews.com. China Mobile and China Unicom users can […]

A survey conducted by OnAir of passengers traveling on business showed 94 percent would like to send or receive e-mails during flights. Shenzhen Airlines is one of the most competitive and successful airlines in China and operates more than 130 routes within the country and to South Korea, Malaysia, Japan and Vietnam. The company carried […]

German logistics service provider Dachser continues to expand its presence in China and has established its second wholly foreign-owned enterprise, the Dachser Shenzhen Company Ltd. Dachser also opened its first warehouse in the Shanghai-Baoshan district at the end of June in response to high demand for contract logistics services. The 3,000 sq m logistics facility […]

FORTY-NINE undergraduate students from 20 Australian universities, which are part of a Sino-Australia cultural exchange program, visited Shenzhen during the weekend. It was the second time Australian students had visited Shenzhen following a trip last July, after Premier Wen Jiabao’s visit to Australia in April 2006, in which he suggested establishing an exchange program to […]

SHENZHEN is the third most beautiful city in China, following Beijing and Hong Kong, according to a study released Monday. The six-month study, which was conducted by the Hong Kong-based China Research Institute for Urban Competitiveness, said Shenzhen took third place among 661 cities for its role as the pioneer of China’s opening up and […]

A SHENZHEN man, who exhibited a self-composed prose poem at this year’s China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industry Fair, has written a prose poem for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The Daily Sunshine said yesterday that Jia Yubao, who works at the Shenzhen branch of the Bank of China plans to take 2,008 Shenzhen students with him […]

Wu Pianpian, from Shenzhen, receives her crown after wining the title of Miss Tourism International, Ukraine Black Sea in Oddesa, Ukraine on Friday. The fi rst and second runners-up of the contest came from Ukraine and France. (Wei Jiancheng)  

SHENZHEN’S Metro could stretch 422.4 kilometers by 2020, nearly five times as long as the current Hong Kong Metro, the municipal urban planning bureau said yesterday (July 9). In its draft plan, the urban planning bureau proposes to build 245.4 kilometers of Metro lines from 2011 to 2020, the third phase of the city’s huge […]

TWO land plots in Longgang District sold for 478 million yuan (US$62.89 million) Monday afternoon, nearly double the starting price. Shenzhen-based real estate giant Vanke successfully outbid six other buyers to buy the two plots, with a combined land area of 78,583 square meters, in Shenzhen Grand Industrial Zone. The plots will be developed for […]

Hong Kong has proposed opening up its border to permanent residents of the booming southern Chinese city of Shenzhen to boost its competitiveness and cross-border integration, a newspaper reported on Friday. Chinese residents in numerous mainland cities, including Shenzhen, are now free to visit bustling Hong Kong, with paperwork required for each visit for a […]