An under-glaze-colored vase with carved peony pattern produced by Yong Feng Yuan Industry Co. Ltd., one of China’s largest porcelain makers. To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, 200 sets of the new vases will be launched via Shenzhen TV at 8:50 p.m. today. Tang Li  

Liu Minxia SEVENTEEN companies founded by Shenzhen University students moved into a 690-square-meter structure set aside for them in the Shenzhen High-Tech Industrial Park in Nanshan District on Sunday. To help students find work, Shenzhen University has spent about 1.5 million yuan (US$220,000) this year financing students willing to start their own businesses and renting […]

DAMEISHA beach park in eastern Shenzhen will allow visitors free entry during the National Day holidays from Thursday to Oct. 8, when a new policy to curb visitor numbers will take effect, the city’s development and reform commission said Sunday. Starting Thursday, the park, which is often overcrowded during holidays, will impose a maximum daily […]

A whole-page advertisement which reads: Danny, an independent and creative man in his 30s, hopes to find a soulmate with whom to travel the world and enjoy life together. Li Zhong A BILLIONAIRE furthered his search for a wife by paying for a whole-page advertisement in a Guangdong newspaper Sunday, drawing the attention of women […]

NINE State-owned television channels, including Shenzhen TV, on the Chinese mainland began to broadcast in high-definition yesterday. All programs on the channels will be broadcast in both high-definition and standard-definition. “All these channels have completed satellite transmission of TV signals, which enables subscribers to HDTV to watch National Day celebrations in high-definition,” the State Administration […]

The front page of Monday’s Shenzhen Daily overseas editions. Lin Min THE Shenzhen Daily yesterday launched its U.S. and Indonesian editions, the first time it has been published overseas. From yesterday, eight pages of the Shenzhen Daily will be published and distributed every day by the International Daily News, one of the largest-circulating Chinese-language newspapers […]

Newman Huo SHENZHEN will launch an annual international tourism festival in October, part of its effort to build the city into an international coastal tourism center, authorities announced yesterday. The two-month Shenzhen International Tourism and Culture Festival, the fifth since 2005, will stage 22 cultural, sports and tourism events. Among them there will be China […]

A view of Nei Lingding Island from Castle Peak, Hong Kong.SD-Agencies SHENZHEN was granted jurisdiction over Inner Lingding Island, a wildlife reserve between Hong Kong’s Yuen Long and Shenzhen’s Shekou, by the Guangdong government Friday. Shenzhen and its neighbor Zhuhai had been divided for years on which city the island should belong to. The 4.84-square-kilometer […]

Li Hao AN estimated 4.82 million people will cross the Hong Kong-Shenzhen border during the forthcoming National Day holidays from Wednesday to Oct. 8, frontier officials said Saturday. The Shenzhen General Station of Exit and Entry Frontier Inspection said in a news release that the figure, an average of 530,000 moving daily across the border, […]

Wang Yuanyuan A TOTAL of 200 migrant workers had gained admission to top universities in the country, supported by the city government, the Shenzhen Federation of Trade Unions said Saturday. They will continue their studies at the city’s migrant school, and the federation will invite teachers from Tianjin University, Sichuan University and Beijing University of […]