At a flower fair for this year’s Spring Festival in Futian District on Thursday, three hearing-impaired girls in red from the Special Education Department of Changchun University were introducing an intangible cultural heritage through writing tablets and mobile phone translation apps to fair visitors.
2023-01-20
As the Spring Festival is around the corner, many restaurants in the city have been almost fully booked for family reunion dinners on Chinese New Year’s Eve, according to Shenzhen Evening News.
Although it is an old Chinese tradition to set off firecrackers and fireworks at midnight to scare away evil spirits and celebrate the coming of the new year, firework and firecracker celebrations are banned in Shenzhen out of safety considerations.
A cultural feast is being orchestrated for Shenzhen citizens to enjoy the upcoming Spring Festival — a time for family reunions — to take a good break and to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year.
2023-01-19
A B777F wide-body cargo plane, operated by Central Airlines and YunExpress, carrying 78 metric tons of cargo, departed from Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport on Monday, heading for Paris.
In Ma's 24-year career as a train policeman, he has encountered such emergencies many times. For him, it is a train policeman's greatest wish to safeguard passengers to their destinations.
Several merchants in HiGreen, Shenzhen's largest agricultural produce wholesale market in Longgang District, told Shenzhen Special Zone Daily that the market has seen a growing flow of people in recent days and the overall fruit sales volume increased.
A charity event is being held at a photo studio in Haiya Mega Mall in Bao’an District until Feb. 14 to offer free photo services for community workers, medical workers, deliverymen, sanitation workers and volunteers, Shenzhen Evening News reported.
Sam's Club said yesterday that no blue-ringed octopuses were found during its suppliers’ seafood selection and product processing, DT News reported.
Ninety minutes ahead of departure for their hometown in Changsha, capital of Hunan Province, on Monday, Li and her husband surnamed Hu, arrived at Shenzhen North Railway Station, waiting for the start of their 800-kilometer trip for their Spring Festival family reunion.
2023-01-18
The resumption of quarantine-free cross-border travel between Shenzhen and Hong Kong on Jan. 8, as well as operation of the high-speed railway connecting the mainland and Hong Kong on Sunday, has excited many who live a dual-city life in the neighboring cities of Shenzhen and Hong Kong.
With the Spring Festival approaching, the major bookstores of Shenzhen Book City have planned 63 festival-themed activities to provide a cultural feast with Chinese charm for residents.
An Italian boy was seen writing Chinese couplets at Futian Checkpoint during a couplets writing activity Sunday. The Italian boy said he would bring the couplets back to Italy, Shenzhen Evening News reported.
As China has lifted COVID-19 restrictions and vowed stronger support for economic growth, Shenzhen has been moving fast to send trade delegations to foreign countries and China’s Hong Kong and Macao to fortify business ties with their overseas peers and seek businesses opportunities in the global market.
2023-01-17
Hong Kong announced that the daily quota for Hong Kong residents traveling to the mainland via land checkpoints will be increased to 65,000 from 50,000 to cope with the surge for the Spring Festival holiday travel between Jan. 18 and 21.
The registration for the Shenzhen Marathon 2022 has started and will end at 5 p.m. tomorrow, the marathon’s organizing committee said Saturday.
Two scientific achievements developed by Shenzhen institutions were listed among the country’s top 10 scientific advances for 2022, marking the notable progress in the city’s original innovation capability.
Temperatures tomorrow and Wednesday in Shenzhen will plunge to the minimum of 8 degrees Celsius as a strong cold air from the north arrived in the city yesterday, according to the Shenzhen Meteorological Observatory.
2023-01-16
Shenzhen's PM2.5 concentration dropped from the highest 62 micrograms per cubic meter since the monitoring data was available to 16 micrograms per cubic meter in 2022, hitting a new record low, the city’s ecology and environment bureau said.
Bullet train G5820 from Hong Kong arrived at Shenzhen North Railway Station at around 7:22 a.m. yesterday after an 18-minute trip, becoming the first train to Shenzhen as the high-speed railway connecting the mainland and Hong Kong resumed operation after nearly three years of suspension due to the pandemic.
