Li Jiaying, or Lai Ka-ying in Cantonese, made history as the first astronaut from China’s Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) to travel to space, as a payload specialist for the Shenzhou-23 spaceflight mission.

Shenzhen Technology University (SZTU) recently held its 6th Auto Culture Festival, bringing together cultural showcases, hands-on technology experiences, industry-university-research collaboration, and exchanges with other schools.

​Recently, Li Xin, the owner of Jin Ji Restaurant, marked the 30th anniversary of her eatery in Yantian District with a birthday cake, dressed in bright red.

An edible potted kale plant, sustainably harvested and priced at 29.9 yuan (US$4.2) apiece, became the hottest product at Sam's Club in Shenzhen recently, thanks to the craze for kale among health-minded city-dwellers.

Shenzhen is never short of young tech talents. Bernie Huang Jinyuan, a 16-year-old sophomore in the senior high division of Shenzhen Experimental School in Nanshan District, has already open-sourced over 40 mini-programs of his own on GitHub, with over 100 code repositories.

At Shenzhen Bao’an Middle School, students stressed over the upcoming college entrance exam recently petitioned to remove a nest of noisy birds from campus, but their principal refused and instead offered them something more valuable than silence.

Recently, a schoolteacher in Shenzhen and father of three experienced the most thrilling 150 seconds of his life.