To further train high end professionals to work at the city’s logistics industry, Dalian Maritime University in Liaoning Province plans to build an international logistics institute in Shenzhen. Plans for the preparation and construction of the institute is already in discussion by the city. City transport commission said that the logistics industry added around 110 [...]
Companies in Shenzhen are facing a post holiday staff shortage, and after this year’s Spring Festival 60 percent of local companies in Shenzhen are planning to hire more workers with half of the companies offering higher wages in hopes to attract more workers. Statistics also showed that around 7 percent of the companies have fewer [...]
Through a new city service residents that are covered by the city medical insurance can now share their accounts with other insured family members when their balances exceed the city’s average monthly salary for last year. The service has been initiated by the Shenzhen Social Insurance Fund Management Bureau and allows the card owners to [...]
Plans for the Shenzhen-Zhongshan corridor project will be finished this year. The project will give Shenzhen direct road access to the Western Pearl River Delta, with the corridor’s landing site in Shenzhen to be located on the south side of the Shenzhen airport. The corridor will then connect Jihe expressway and the Guangzhou-Shenzhen No. 2 [...]
More than 600 well-known enterprises participated in the 56th Hero Job Fair, attracting more than 32,000 job seekers. The job fair offered more than 30,000 job vacancies with annual salaries of more than 80,000 yuan but employers still had a hard time finding desirable matches for the jobs offered. The booths of ZTE, Fiyta and [...]
The transport commission said that the city will not impose an increase in fuel surcharges that is imposed on local taxi passengers that needs to pay a 3 yuan fuel surcharge for every time they ride a taxi. These remarks were made after local taxi driver were complaining on the pressure caused by a hike [...]
The city is planning to build a wetland park along the Longgang river after the phase two of the river treatment project is completed by the end of this year. The phase two river project has a total investment of 1.02 billion yuan and began last month. The project will clean a 9 kilometer section [...]
The city will reduce its carbon dioxide emissions to about 26 tons a day once the national ruling takes effect that will ban official vehicles far a day each week. Government vehicles and other State owned company vehicles will not be used for one day each week in the nationwide campaign that will help curb [...]
With the end of the Spring Festival bringing in a wave of new migrant workers to the city to find work, though not as many as employers might like, apartments in urban villages have increased their rents, especially in the Gangxia and Baishizhou communities and villages with high migrant populations. The cost of renting an [...]
Local stores in Shenzhen are thriving since they began buyback businesses as customers come in and return high-priced gifts they received during the Spring Festival. The gifts are bought back by the stores at a fraction of the original prices of the gifts when bought. Some grocery and convenience stores are promoting buyback services for [...]
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