For Yang Wei and Zheng Hong, the 15-meter sailboat Danyun is more than a vessel. It is their floating home, a testament to a life lived on the water rather than in the waiting room of retirement.

Social media is buzzing with talk of “International Shenzhen” — a city where bilingual street signs and quadrilingual displays at the airport and border checkpoints are rapidly reshaping the linguistic landscape.

Music therapy, employed since the 1940s as a key intervention for autism, has shown benefits in improving children’s social and communication skills. Musical activities have been proven to enhance various cognitive functions crucial for learning, including memory retention, attention span, language acquisition, cognitive flexibility, and inhibitory control.

On a recent Friday afternoon at the Dongwan Primary School in Nanshan District, a group of primary school students stood in a circle, their voices filling the classroom as they rehearsed English lines from “The Wizard of Oz.”