AS the eight-day National Day holiday approaches, outbound tours have become the first choice for Shenzhen residents. “More than 70 percent of the outbound tour groups had been booked by the end of August,” said a manager of Each Travel in Luohu District, surnamed Zhang. Zhang said prices for overseas tours had fallen by 10 […]

BEIJING, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) — China Vanke, the country’s largest listed real estate developer, said its August sales volume nationwide rose 18.3 percent from a year earlier to 4.82 billion yuan (705.6 million U.S. dollars), the smallest gain since March, reported Saturday’s China Daily. The combined sales volume of the Shenzhen-based developer increased 4.5 percent […]

A TOTAL of 18 firms with headquarters in Shenzhen found their names among China’s top 500 enterprises in 2009 released Saturday by the China Enterprise Confederation (CEC) and China Enterprise Directors Association. The Shenzhen-based Ping An Insurance, one of the country’s most profitable life insurance companies, was placed at 38 on the list, the highest […]

AIR-RAID sirens will be tested throughout the city Monday morning. The sirens will sound from 11 to 11:15 a.m. simultaneously in all areas where air-raid sirens have been installed, a circular issued by the city government said. The test is to check the effectiveness of the warning sirens and to raise awareness of national defense, […]

THE number of Internet users in Shenzhen had reached 5.49 million by May 31, 1.01 million more than the figure recorded last year. The Internet penetration rate in the city was 62.3 percent, 2.4 times the national average of 25.5 percent, according to a report released by the Shenzhen Online Media Association on Wednesday. Most […]

A JAPANESE insurance company became the first foreign insurer to set up a headquarters in Shenzhen on Wednesday. The establishment of headquarters for the NIPPONKOA Insurance Co. (China) Ltd., Japan’s third oldest non-life insurance provider, was also a first for South China. The company was eligible for incentives totaling 8 million yuan (US$1.47 million) from […]

MANY of Shenzhen’s 20,000 taxi drivers had turned to gambling because of meager incomes and depression, according to an investigative report in yesterday’s Southern Metropolis Daily. Police raided an illegal gambling den for taxi drivers in Luohu District on Aug. 26 and arrested a dozen suspects. A day earlier, police released three taxi drivers who […]

INTERNATIONAL ping pong champion Guo Yue will be among the 6,918 freshmen entering Shenzhen University when the new term begins this month. Guo won Women’s Team World Table Tennis Championships in 2004 when she was 16, making her the youngest world champion in China’s ping pong history. She also won the women’s world championship in […]

Shenzhen has decided to build a new science hall to replace the old one, which is one of the ten major tasks of the Shenzhen Municipal Government this year, and its planning and construction are required to break through. “At present, citizens’ sound opinions are being collected and taken on the construction of the new […]

FOLLOWING a citywide action against drink driving, police are targeting another common habit: smoking. As part of a national fire prevention campaign, the city fire department under the public security bureau restated Monday the penalties for smoking in fire hazard areas after a 56-year-old man was detained for smoking in a wholesale market in Chongqing […]