Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
shenzhen x 03CONTACT US AT: 8351-9443, [email protected]
Fri/Sat/Sun June 2~4, 2017
At a Glance
Smoking-ban violationsDATA from the Shenzhen Tobacco Control Association showed that 48,721 violators of the city’s smoking ban had been fi ned a total of 2.43 mil-lion yuan (US$354,051) as of April this year since the smok-ing ban took effect in March 2014. Eight operators of non-smoking venues have been fi ned 210,000 yuan for failing to comply with the ban.
Two monthlong opera-tions were launched by the authorities in March and May to conduct spot checks at lei-sure venues and restaurants citywide to punish violators of the smoking ban. A third operation will kick off this month to check smoking-ban violations in offi ce buildings, medical institutions, schools and border checkpoints.Illegal fundraisingA MAN who illegally raised 600 million yuan from 200,000 investors by promising high interest rates and returns for investing in a robot business has been caught by Shenzhen police.
The 46-year-old suspect, a native of Henan Province surnamed Li, was on the run and wanted by Jiangsu police. Shenzhen railway police acted
on a clue and caught Li at Shen-zhen Railway Station. Li was a supervisor of a game website. He started to attract investors in February 2014 by offering commissions for developing members for its robot busi-ness. Li escaped after his lie was exposed.
Li has been handed to Jiangsu police.Shared readingSHENZHEN Children’s Library, Shenzhen Children’s Hospital and Shenzhen Read-ing Promoters Association jointly initiated a shared, guided reading program Thurs-day for children with serious diseases, such as leukemia.
A total of 19 volunteers were selected to read with the chil-dren, who have been unable to go to school like other kids due to their illnesses.Theft ringFIVE members of a ring who had been stealing property from cars were arrested by Nanshan police recently.
Police also seized lock-signal disruption devices, unlock-ing tools and some property, such as cameras, phones and liquor.
The ring has been involved in at least fi ve theft cases since March.
Equestrian club opensA man rides a horse at a new equestrian club in Xiangmihu, Futian District on Thursday. Equestrian in China lags far behind the rest of the world, especially in terms of professional training compared to that in Europe and Australia. The Futian club, which opened to the public Wednesday, covers an area of 12,000 square meters and has introduced 11 ponies for children and seven other horses from countries including the U.K., Australia, the Netherlands and Germany for adults. SD-Agencies
STARTING Thursday, civilians who want to use drones must register at the relevant govern-ment department with their real names, according to an offi cial regulation recently rolled out by the Civil Aviation Administra-tion of China (CAAC), the Daily Sunshine reported.
The regulation specifi es that civilians who possess drones weighing 250 grams or more need to register their drones with their real names and attach the authorized tags onto the drones. Violations will be regarded as illegal acts after Aug. 31.
Shenzhen is considered the most prolifi c city around the globe at producing drones. There are currently over 300 enterprises that develop and manufacture drones. The
number is still growing with an annual increase of over 30 per-cent. Among them, companies like DJI and AEE are leading the nation in drone R&D.
According to statistics pro-vided by the city’s economy, trade and information com-mission, Shenzhen’s design and manufacture of consumer drones takes up more than 70 percent of the global market.
However, compared to the rapid growth of the drone industry, regulation is lagging behind causing unbalanced development of drones in terms of quality, maintenance, market access and so forth.
Shenzhen’s market super-vision department recently gathered experts from the standardization department as
well as representatives from drone-making companies for a seminar to discuss the current standards for drone usage.
“The standards being used now were released around 2010 for a small part of the drone industry and are inadequate for the current mass market,” said a person from the standardization department.
A drone association in Shen-zhen has already released eight standards for drone use, accord-ing to Yang Jincai, head of the association.
The standards are expected to regulate and supervise the design, manufacture as well as the use of drones, while further and more detailed standards are expected.
(Zhang Qian)
Real-name registrationfor use of civilian drones
HONG KONG elderly people who fall ill while in Shenzhen will soon be able to get help from the University of Hong Kong-Shen-zhen Hospital (HKU-Shenzhen Hospital) by simply tapping a button on their smartphone, Hong Kong-based The Standard reported Thursday.
The Senior Citizen Home Safety Association (SCHSA) in Hong Kong is introducing the cross-border “Call and Care Service” in July.
The Personal Emergency Link was rolled out in 1996 with a device that puts the users in touch with the call center and emergency help.
Mobile services, including a safety phone and phone appli-cations, have been developed in recent years.
Co-founder Law Chi-kwong said: “With its experience, SCHSA hopes to provide support for Hong Kong elderly people who travel to the mainland.”
Citing government fi gures, Law said there are 10,400 Hong Kong senior citizens living in Shenzhen. About 20,600 people aged 65 or above travel to the mainland daily.
Users of the Call and Care Service mobile app are charged a HK$168 (US$22) monthly fee, said chief executive Irene Leung Suk-yee.
It is expected that the cross-border service will cost around HK$220 to HK$230 a month, Leung said. Current users will
just have to visit the association’s center to switch to the new plan.
The fi rst stage of the plan will start next month, covering Shen-zhen, Leung said.
She said the service could be expanded to other Guangdong cities, but that the team would fi rst have to get familiar with certain issues, including the regulations on the mainland.
To get help, users will have to tap the safety button to reach the service’s call center in Hong Kong, which operates around the clock.
If necessary, the case and the patient’s medical records will be transferred to the HKU-Shen-zhen Hospital and an ambu-lance will be arranged, while the patient’s emergency contact is notifi ed.
Hospital chief executive Lo Chung-mau said that many senior citizens are unfamiliar with the medical culture at mainland hos-pitals and are concerned about the quality of service there.
Lo said that his hospital is managed by a team from HKU, which runs on the Hong Kong model and coordinates better with medical institutions in Hong Kong.
“There has been a misun-derstanding that our hospital charges hefty fees similar to pri-vate hospitals,” Lo said, adding that Hongkongers are charged the same price as Shenzhen citizens at his hospital.
(SD-Agencies)
Hong Kong elderly getSZ hospital help app
A TOTAL of 738 app-based cab drivers for Didi Chuxing, the largest app-based cab opera-tor in China, have been caught driving under the infl uence of alcohol, with two being caught twice, so far this year.
Among them, 431 were caught drinking and driving and 307 were caught drunk driving, according to a report released by police Thursday.
Shenzhen traffi c police, in partnership with Didi Chuxing, disqualifi ed 1,017 registered
drivers who were involved in hit-and-run accidents, had multiple unhandled violations or had the full 12 penalty points added to their licenses since the two sides signed a data-sharing agreement this January.
The number of vehicles that violated traffi c rules so far this year accounted for 16.8 percent of the registered vehicles on the service platform. This percent-age was much lower than the 49 percent at the beginning of 2016, equivalent to 15.4 percent of the violation rate of private cars in the city, which is lower than the rate of 25.68 percent of tradi-
tional cabs, statistics provided by police showed.
So far this year, 15 vehicles were recorded having more than 20 violations, a drop by 96 percent from the number in 2016.
Among the 176,948 violations that police have checked this year, 42 percent were for illegal park-ing, 9.68 were for illegally chang-ing lanes and 6.26 percent were failing to fasten safety belts.
The data showed that one-third of the app-based cars registered on the Didi service platform were being used as private cars and were not actively engaged in passenger service.
App-based cabbies caught for DUI
