Tai chi performers promote Universiade Tai chi practitioners during a performance in Gongming, Guangming New Zone, on Sunday. More than 1,300 residents and migrant workers joined the exercise to welcome the Summer Universiade to be held in Shenzhen in August. Zhang Liancheng Source:ShenzhenDaily | Editer:王佳

IPR training launched in Longgang Longgang District, where the Universiade Center and the Universiade main venues are located, will see many events in the future and thus will be a concern of the Universiade intellectual property protection. At the 248 – day countdown to the 26th Shenzhen Summer Universiade, the Universiade Executive Office launched a […]

Han Ximin SHENZHEN’S Air Pollution Index (API) average reading hit 125 yesterday, posing a threat to people with heart and respiratory illnesses. According to yesterday’s air pollution report released by the Shenzhen Meteorological Observatory and Shenzhen Environment Monitoring Station, the API in Nanshan was 157, Bao’an 148 and Futian 120. The pollutants were mainly exhaust […]

      Two customs officials inspect iPads being smuggled into Shenzhen at the Huanggang Checkpoint on Sunday. The checkpoint seized smuggled electronic goods worth 2 million yuan (US$300,200) found in an inbound container truck, the department said yesterday. The smuggled goods included 150 iPads, 160 Nokia phones and more than 2,000 CPUs, which were destined […]

Foreign Languages School turns 20     Foreign guests depart after attending a celebration for the 20th anniversary of the founding of Shenzhen Foreign Languages School on Thursday. More than 200 prestigious principals and educators from all over the world took part in a global forum at the school Wednesday. The forum was part of a […]

Chen Gaihu A FORMER senior official of the Central Government was appointed Shenzhen vice mayor at a meeting of the city’s legislature Monday. Chen Gaihu, a former member of the Party committee of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and director of the commission’s general office, became the seventh vice mayor of Shenzhen. Chen, 50, was […]

‘Start Here’ to speak English Guangdong Governor Huang Huahua (C), Shenzhen Party chief Wang Rong (4th R) and other officials of the central, provincial and municipal governments at Thursday’s Universiade one-year countdown at Shenzhen Stadium. Tina Chen “LET’S speak English,” Mayor Xu Qin announced at the launching ceremony of the “Shenzhen Speaks Foreign Languages” campaign […]

New Metro lines in service   A family takes first trip on Metro Line 3, which opened in Shenzhen yesterday.Sun Yuchen   Han Ximin THE first phase of Metro Line 2 and the elevated part of Metro Line 3 opened yesterday, bringing city Metro rail length to 90 kilometers and beginning the formation of the […]

Wang Yuanyuan OU XINYANG, who lives in Longgang District, was among the first passengers to take the elevated section of Metro Line 3, which officially opened at 5 p.m. yesterday. She said the new line brought them much closer to downtown Shenzhen. “I took the first train on purpose to see how fast I could […]

      Visitors get a taste of a white Christmas having their picture taken with a snowman at the Window of the World theme park in OCT, Nanshan District, on Tuesday. The annual Ice and Snow Festival opened in the theme park early this month. A ski run of 4,000 square meters was set up […]