The Shekou Cruise Homeport officially launched a cross‑border helicopter service Tuesday, becoming China’s first “sea‑plus‑air” multimodal port.

Sir Vince Cable, a former British politician and an economist, has hailed Shenzhen’s extraordinary transformation, saying the city has completed an urban evolution in just over four decades that would have taken centuries elsewhere.

Shenzhen has been ranked 27th on a list of the world’s top 100 education cities, according to a ranking released last week by the Institute of World Influential Education Center Studies at the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE).

Huaqiangbei Pedestrian Street, known as the world’s largest electronics market, has refreshed its signage to better serve a steadily growing international clientele, with bilingual signage now installed at every key junction, according to a Shenzhen Special Zone Daily report earlier this week.

As Typhoon Ragasa weakens and moves away from the city, Shenzhen began lifting its emergency restrictions in the afternoon. Key transportation services, including metro, airport, high-speed rail, and cross-border access, are gradually resuming.

Over 60 scholars and researchers from universities and research institutions at home and abroad — including the Stanford Institute for Human-centered Artificial Intelligence, The University of Manchester’s Global Development Institute, and Tsinghua University — visited Tencent for the “Technology for Good: Driving Social Impact” open research program yesterday morning.

Hugh Michael Davies, a scholar at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology specializing in digital games, emphasized the importance of including diverse voices in the AI discussion during an open research program titled "Technology for Good: Driving Social Impact" held at Tencent on Sept. 23 in Nanshan District.

Shenzhen is maintaining a full “five suspensions” policy today — halting work, business, markets, classes, and public transport — as Typhoon Ragasa continues to bring intense wind and rain to the region.