As of today Shenzhen’s taxi fuel surcharge is back to 3 yuan. The city transportation commission said that move bought back the fuel surcharge back to 3 yuan after it was increased to 4 yuan that followed the fuel price increase in March. The surcharge adjustments came after the recent decrease in the price of [...]
The number of crimes on Shenzhen streets has dropped 15 percent compared to the previous month after a new police regulation required desk officers to go on patrol shifts. Reports on crimes and offenses on city streets have also dropped by 47.9 percent from April 1 to May 4 of this year. Everyday around 80,000 [...]
Starting May 15 residents can apply for a new electronically enhanced passport which contains a chip that hold the passport’s owner information. The new passports will still look the traditional paper document only there is an inserted micro chip that contains the passport holder’s name, birth date, photo and fingerprints. The new generation passports can [...]
China is planning to give out more green cards and ease on its restriction for a visa free entry for foreigners to encourage them top come and work in the country. According to a senior security official they will be increasing the eligibility quota for green cards and extend the scope fro a duty free [...]
The State Council recently released new national school bus regulations, because of these city officials in Shenzhen are working to align the regulations in Shenzhen along with the State regulations by adjusting minor details on their own regulations that was implemented in 2006. National regulations are requiring drivers to be licensed in driving bus size [...]
After the grace period for the electric bicycles have ended, traffic police started impounded bicycles that have been illegally entering the roads starting yesterday. So far the police have confiscated more than nine hundred bicycles. To implement the new rule, police dispatched 400 officers in 50 inspection stations. The police used personal digital assistants that [...]
The city recently saw a drop in the number of Shenzheners without hukou a first in the city’s history. And by the end of 2011 Shenzhen’s non-hukou population was 7.78 million a .93 percent decrease since 2010. The city overall population increased slightly, but there were 10.5 million people living in the city by the [...]
The city human resources and social security bureau said that college graduates holding an associate degree may now individually apply for permanent residency from the labor authorities. Students that graduated from universities in Shenzhen and students holding permanent residency can now enjoy the benefits of a hukou holder. Previously, only students having four year university [...]
Several auction groups are taking advantage of the laws and regulations that concerns with the chaotic cultural relics market in China catching the attention of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage. This prompted the SACH policy and regulation bureau to intensify its supervision and management to this auction groups that take advantage of buyers by [...]
The city urban planning, land and resources commission will be conducting tax reform on luxury housing purchases and ownership. The reform is interpreted by the local housing industry as a mark for an implementation of a property tax. The reform will raise tax on buyers and owners of luxury housing such as villas and large [...]
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