Huanggang Checkpoint, the only 24-hour land checkpoint between Shenzhen and Hong Kong, resumed border-crossing services for travelers yesterday.
2023-02-07
The city's public transport authority has optimized bus routes to ensure smooth traffic flow at land checkpoints after the full resumption of cross-border travel yesterday.
Holders of Shenzhen hukou, or permanent residency permits, can now apply for endorsement of travel permits to Hong Kong and Macao through automated kiosks, as the border crossing with Hong Kong and Macao fully resumed.
Primary, secondary schools and kindergartens in Shenzhen regained its usual vigor and vitality as the spring semester officially kicked off yesterday.
After exiting the Arrival Hall of the Liantang Checkpoint in Luohu District at around 7 a.m. today, the first day of the full opening of the checkpoint, a Hongkonger surnamed Ho took a photo with his wife to record the moment with the flowers and gifts from the checkpoint authority.
2023-02-06
The whole city of Shenzhen was immersed in a joyous festive atmosphere in celebration of the annual Lantern Festival, a traditional Chinese festival that features family reunions, feasts, light shows, diverse traditional customs and various cultural activities.
Chinese and foreign artists paraded through Bantian Handmade Cultural Street in Longgang District on Saturday afternoon to celebrate the Lantern Festival that fell on yesterday.
The 2023 Qianhai Global Investment Promotion Conference London Station was successfully held in London on Saturday, attracting senior executives and representatives from over 50 British enterprises to attend.
The Shenzhen Qianhai Shekou Free Trade Zone Hospital recently announced that it has started offering reservation services for the inoculation of the Omicron BA.4/BA.5-adapted bivalent mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in Hong Kong.
The Chinese mainland and Hong Kong/Macao will fully reopen with no COVID-19 restrictions, including no quota for arrivals on either side, from Monday, the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council announced this morning.
2023-02-03
Primary and secondary schools as well as kindergartens in Shenzhen have been required to inform students and teachers to undergo home health monitoring before they return to campus for the spring term Monday, the Shenzhen Municipal Education Bureau said in a notice Wednesday.
A large post-festival job fair was held Thursday at the Shenzhen Labor and Employment Building in Futian District, offering 2,200 posts for jobseekers.
New progress has been made in the construction of the Shenzhen Opera House, which tops the list of Shenzhen's 10 major cultural facilities in the following years, Shenzhen Economic Daily reported Thursday.
Registrations for the Shenzhen Bao'an Marathon 2022 will start at 10 a.m. Friday, according to an announcement from Borun Spread, the event operator, on its WeChat account Wednesday.
The city is planning to build a hiking system containing 1,000-kilometer trails which will run through eastern and western Shenzhen, according to a draft special plan (2022-2025) featuring the city's hiking trails released by the Shenzhen Municipal Urban Administration and Law Enforcement Bureau recently.
Shenzhen's Futian Mangrove Nature Reserve has been listed as a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention, it was announced at the home publicity event held at Xixi National Wetland Park in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, this morning marking the World Wetlands Day.
2023-02-02
China will establish the world's first international mangrove center in Shenzhen as an important site for global mangrove preservation and cooperation. This will be essential to make the city a benchmark for other cities worldwide, according to Italian ecosystem expert Matteo Convertino.
As the Chinese New Year holiday ended, many "nianhuo," or New Year's goods that people bought, might be abandoned. Experts suggest that citizens recycle or turn them into more useful objects.
The added value of Shenzhen's financial industry reached over 513.7 billion yuan (US$76.1 billion) in 2022, passing the 500-billion-yuan mark for the first time with a growth rate of 8.2% year on year, Shenzhen Special Zone Daily reported yesterday, quoting statistics from the city’s financial supervisory authority.
Shenzhen Port opened a total of 22 combined ports with nine Pearl River Delta cities since the Combined Port program was launched in October 2020.
