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Monday June 26, 2017 02 x shenzhen
At a Glance
SHENZHEN is starting to pilot women-only carriages on Metro lines 1, 3, 4 and 5 today.
According to a report of the Southern Metropolis Daily, quot-ing the Shenzhen railway offi ce, signs giving priority to women will be put up at the stations of the four lines that will introduce the service.
The move is to improve the commuting experience and safety of female passengers and will be expanded to other Metro lines if it proves to be good.
Unlike Guangzhou Metro’s similar rule, which applies only during rush hours, Shenzhen Metro Co. provides the service all day to give priority to female passengers in some designated carriages.
Guangzhou Metro Group said Friday that it would pilot a similar program on Line 1 start-ing Wednesday, giving priority to female riders who take the designated carriages during rush hours.
Earlier in the month, Wang Rong, chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Com-mittee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Confer-ence, visited Shenzhen and Guangzhou Metro companies to research the setting up of women-only carriages follow-ing a proposal by local political adviser, Su Zhongyang, at the annual session of the provin-cial political advisory body. Su said that women-only carriages would show the society’s respect and protection of women, as women often feel embarrassed when they are jammed too close to others in train cars.
Some netizens said the idea was good, but hard to imple-ment, as it could reduce the overall capacity of trains and easily cause disputes when male passengers enter the carriages.
Statistics show the city’s eight Metro lines handle around 4.5 million passengers a day, accounting for 40 percent of all commuters that use public transport.
IN the latest move to improve driving civility, Shenzhen traf-fi c police will tighten checks on drivers who illegally park in the restricted yellow-grid areas, which have been designated at intersections and entrances or exits that could easily cause congestion.
Starting July 3, police will impose a 1,000-yuan (US$146) fi ne on each parking violator after a one-week grace period. If a violation causes congestion or a traffi c accident, the fi ne will double to 2,000 yuan.
If a driver is caught dropping off or picking up passengers in
the yellow-grid areas, the driver will be fi ned 200 yuan and have three penalty points added to his/her driver’s license.
When the vehicles in the front go slowly due to traffi c conges-tion or waiting for a traffi c light, vehicles that enter the yellow-grid areas will be treated as “occupying a yellow grid while waiting for traffi c.” Under this circumstance, drivers will be fi ned 300 yuan each time if they don’t move within 5 seconds, or if they intentionally drive slowly and fail to exit the restricted area within 10 seconds, according to the traffi c police.
So far this year, police have checked 996 yellow-grid viola-tions, of which 62 percent were
made by light vehicles and 59 percent were locally registered vehicles. Police also revealed the 10 road sections where yellow-grid areas are most often illegally occupied by vehicles. The road sections include the intersection of Gongming and Huangjiang roads, the entry area of Tongle Checkpoint for southbound vehicles on Guangzhou-Shenzhen Express-way, Dongbin-Shahe West Road Flyover, Pingdi section of Long-gang Boulevard, Wanghai Road and Houhai Boulevard.
Police will send patrol offi cers to check for violations at hospi-tals, schools, business areas and entrances to expressways with monitoring cameras.
The public is encouraged to report such violations via the traffi c police’s WeChat account, microblog or Alipay. Police will fi ne the violators and give a 100-yuan reward for each verifi ed clue. The individual cap for rewards is 500 yuan a month. The public is also encouraged to call 8333-3333 to report yellow grids that are improperly designated.
In another action to improve driving civility, Shenzhen police caught 149 drivers Friday for fail-ing to give priority to pedestrians at intersections without traffi c lights. A total of 758 pedestrians and bikers were fi ned for going against red lights and 1,551 pedes-trians and bikers were warned for using motorist lanes.
Two contestants in action at the Sixth International Yoga Championship held in Guanlan Subdistrict, Longhua District, yesterday. The championship was part of the Color Yoga festival organized by Catic Wellness Group from June 21 to yesterday. Ten interna-tionally famed yoga coaches were invited to hold yoga training sessions during the festival. Wei Jiancheng
Yellow-grid parking violators face fine
Chen [email protected]
IN most people’s eyes, engineers seem to be dull and boring sci-ence geeks. However, for 32-year-old Patrice Guilemond, that’s not the case.
Guilemond is an embedded soft-ware engineer from France who now works at Vision Shenzhen Business Park near Keyuan Metro Station in Nanshan.
Every other Saturday after-noon, Guilemond teaches salsa, a popular form of dance that
originated in the Carib-bean, for free at the Civic Center in Futian District.
“I always wanted to learn to dance but
never took the time until I came here seven years ago,” said Guile-mond, adding that he had taken a few salsa classes while he was a student in France but really
learned to dance in Shenzhen, where he’s practiced a variety of styles, ranging from salsa and bachata to zouk and kizomba.
Guilemond said he used to invite some friends to dance with him but they didn’t know how, so he taught them.
“At fi rst it was between friends. Little by little, friends invited their friends and it grew like this,” said Guilemond. Now they have a WeChat group called “Salsa begin-ner class” with over 125 people. “But mostly around 10 people come to the class each time.”
Guilemond said he just wants to share the fun of dancing with friends. “Salsa, and dancing in general, is a great way to meet new people, to make new friends, while having fun, and doing a bit of body exercises, you can burn a few calories too.”
“Dancing is also a great way to express yourself and gain confi dence. It’s the best remedy against feeling down,” said Gui-lemond, who used to be very shy but now seems pretty outgoing.
‘Dancing is the best remedy against feeling down’
City pilots women-only Metro cars
Patrice Guilemond
More trainsSHENZHEN railway authority will add a train from Shenzhen Railway Station to Xi’an and three temporary round-trip trains from the city’s east railway station to Maoming, Nanxiong and Nanchang in the new operation schedule that will take effect July 1.
Schedules of trains to Jiujiang, Changsha, Suzhou, Chengdu and Kunming from Shenzhen Railway Station have been slightly adjusted.
Shenzhen Railway Station estimates it will handle 4.49 million passengers during the summer transport season that ends Aug. 31.Overloading penaltySHENZHEN Nanshan traf-fi c police intercepted a van loaded with 17 people on the Shahe West Road section of Beihuan Boulevard on Satur-day. The driver was fi ned 200 yuan (US$29.26) and had six penalty points added to his license for overloading.Drug traffi ckingLUOHU police busted a drug traffi cking case that involved more than 1,000 kilograms of methamphetamine (meth).
Qingshuihe Police Station received a tip-off indicating that a drug traffi cker was suspected of planning to send a batch of meth to other prov-inces via a courier service. The drugs were placed in over 60 cell phone chargers, labeled as cell phone parts and delivered to a buyer in Liaoning.
The suspect was arrested June 8 and police found some drugs on his body.Cough syrupTHE city’s procuratorate has dropped drug traffi cking charges against a 60-year-old man, after considering his limited social signifi cance and family situation.
The man carried two bot-tles of cough syrup to enter Shenzhen from Hong Kong on June 7. The cough syrup is listed as a controlled drug as it contains codeine.
Yoga championship held
THREE doctors at three public hospitals have been suspended from practicing medicine for up to 12 months for colluding with middlemen to help clients illegally cash out their public medical insurance accounts, according to the health com-mission Friday.
Shenzhen People’s Hospital, Shenzhen No. 3 People’s Hospi-tal and Nanshan People’s Hospi-tal were named and shamed by the commission, each admin-istratively fi ned 20,000 yuan (US$2,926) and given demerits
on their medical practitioner records.
The three doctors were reported in April for forging medical records and prescriptions to earn commis-sions from middlemen who would resell the medications prescribed for their clients, who were not sick but wanted to get cash out of their medical insurance accounts.
According the report, the doc-tors and middlemen would share half of the value of the prescrip-tions, while the card holders would take the other half.
A doctor surnamed Chen, of
the Shenzhen People’s Commis-sion has been suspended for 12 months, removed from his post and had his prescription rights revoked by his employer.
A doctor surnamed Cui, of Shenzhen No. 3 People’s Hospi-tal, was given a six-month admin-istrative penalty and a doctor identifi ed as An with Nanshan People’s Hospital was suspended for six months, dismissed as the director of the cardiac function room and ordered to have train-ing on public medical insurance policies. (Han Ximin, Lei Kaibin)
Doctors punished for illegal conduct
