4 d. ago China’s Expanding Shopping Tourism: How Cities like Beijing, Hainan, and Shenzhen Are Drawing Global Shoppers with Tax Breaks and Tech Deals

China’s Expanding Shopping Tourism: How Cities like Beijing, Hainan, and Shenzhen Are Drawing Global Shoppers with Tax Breaks and Tech Deals  Travel And Tour World

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5 d. ago More than a tech hub, Northern Metropolis can be a cradle for culture

Hong Kong’s Northern Metropolis is more than a mere zoning plan; it is a crucial part of China’s development strategy and a pivotal step towards elevating the Greater Bay Area’s (GBA) global profile. With development now under way, the conversation must shift to a new realm: soft power. The Northern Metropolis should not be just another new town designed to address Hong Kong’s housing and industrial needs. Rather, it must emerge as a zone of cultural emancipation that takes the GBA’s development...

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6 d. ago Shenzhen semiconductor expo shows China’s progress in tech self

Chinese semiconductor companies, part of the more than 600 exhibitors at an industry event in Shenzhen this week, unveiled an array of advanced products that appear to bolster the country’s broad push towards tech self-reliance. At the three-day WeSemiBay Semiconductor Ecosystem Expo 2025, which concludes on Friday, Shenzhen municipal government-backed SiCarrier, which is known to work with Huawei Technologies, drew much attention when the chip equipment maker presented more than a dozen...

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8 d. ago DJI appeals inclusion on Pentagon’s ‘Chinese military companies’ list

Chinese drone maker DJI has appealed a US federal court’s decision that it should remain on the Pentagon’s blacklist of companies allegedly linked to China’s military. The Shenzhen-based company filed the appeal on Monday to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. DJI filed a lawsuit last October, arguing that it is not owned or controlled by the Chinese military and does not contribute to China’s defence industrial base. The drone manufacturer, which sells over half of all US commercial...

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9 d. ago Thousands of Passengers Stranded as Over 70 Flights Cancelled Across China Including Shenzhen Bao, Harbin, Beijing Daxing, Shanghai Hongqiao, and Chengdu Shuangliu: Here is What You Need to Know

Thousands of Passengers Stranded as Over 70 Flights Cancelled Across China Including Shenzhen Bao, Harbin, Beijing Daxing, Shanghai Hongqiao, and Chengdu Shuangliu: Here is What You Need to Know  Travel And Tour World

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1 week ago Travel Smarter in China: How Mobile Payments Are Making Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen the Ultimate Tourist Destinations

Travel Smarter in China: How Mobile Payments Are Making Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen the Ultimate Tourist Destinations  Travel And Tour World

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1 week ago Flight Cancellations in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Kunming and more Heralds Travel Disruption across China, Abandoning Passengers with over a Dozen Suspensions by China Eastern Airlines, New Update

Flight Cancellations in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Kunming and more Heralds Travel Disruption across China, Abandoning Passengers with over a Dozen Suspensions by China Eastern Airlines, New Update  Travel And Tour World

Transport

2 w. ago TransNusa Launches Direct Manado–Shenzhen Flights to Boost the Connectivity Between Indonesia and China

TransNusa Launches Direct Manado–Shenzhen Flights to Boost the Connectivity Between Indonesia and China  Travel And Tour World

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2 w. ago China Southern Airlines Resumes Shenzhen–Da Nang Flights, Strengthening its Trade, Tourism and New Regional Connectivity

China Southern Airlines Resumes Shenzhen–Da Nang Flights, Strengthening its Trade, Tourism and New Regional Connectivity  Travel And Tour World

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3 w. ago Hong Kong to accept mainland Chinese health certificates for imported cats, dogs

Hong Kong has expanded its recognition of veterinary health certificates for cats and dogs imported from mainland China, going from solely Shenzhen to all regions across the border. Hong Kong’s Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department announced on Tuesday that it now accepted animal health certificates issued by official veterinarians from all customs authorities on the mainland. The city started recognising certificates issued by official veterinarians of Shenzhen Customs on June 3 in...

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3 w. ago Why is Shenzhen, China’s balmy southern tech hub, becoming a skiing destination?

Some Chinese skiers are travelling to an unexpected destination to take part in the winter sport: the hot and humid tech hub of Shenzhen in southern China’s Guangdong province, during next month’s eight-day National Day holiday, also known as the “golden week”. Qianhai Huafa Snow World, which is being touted as the world’s largest indoor ski resort, is set to open there on Monday as authorities look to tie the winter sports economy to efforts to boost consumption. The 10-hectare (24.7 acre)...

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3 w. ago Malbon Golf Expands Global Footprint with China Headquarters in Shenzhen

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4 w. ago ‘It felt like it was roaring’: Super Typhoon Ragasa shakes Shenzhen awake

Tech industry worker Zhou Keyi has lived in Shenzhen for three years but had never heard such a roar from a typhoon. “I was woken up by the sound of the wind at around 3am on Wednesday – it felt like it was roaring,” Zhou said on Wednesday as Super Typhoon Ragasa hit southern China, battering the region. “The window next to my bed shook as the storm swept past, which made me feel a little scared.” While no deaths had been reported in the southern tech hub as of Wednesday afternoon, the storm’s...

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4 w. ago Flight Cancellations in China Heralds Travel Disruption across Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and more as China Southern Strands Passengers with Twenty Suspensions, All You Need to Know Now

Flight Cancellations in China Heralds Travel Disruption across Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and more as China Southern Strands Passengers with Twenty Suspensions, All You Need to Know Now  Travel And Tour World

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4 w. ago ‘Wartime readiness’: Shenzhen scrambles as Typhoon Ragasa nears China’s tech hub

As Super Typhoon Ragasa barrels down on southern China, the country’s tech and manufacturing hub has gone into emergency lockdown mode. With the highest alert level declared, officials in Shenzhen – the southern manufacturing powerhouse with a reputation as China’s Silicon Valley – sounded the alarm for “wartime readiness”. Residents responded by scrambling to stockpile supplies, boarding up or taping windows, and bracing for what forecasters are saying could be one of the most ferocious storms...

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4 w. ago Huawei’s Ren Zhengfei, Dongfeng Motor’s Yang Qing talk deeper EV collaboration

Huawei Technologies founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei this week met Yang Qing, chairman of state-owned Dongfeng Motor, in Shenzhen with the goal of deepening collaboration in China’s electric vehicle (EV) sector. The meeting on Monday between Ren, 80, and Yang involved an exchange of “views on industry competition dynamics and corporate mechanism innovation”, according to a statement released on Tuesday by Dongfeng – founded in 1969 and based in Wuhan, the capital of central Hubei province. During...

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4 w. ago Huawei’s computing cluster to power AI projects, challenge US platforms

Huawei Technologies’ quest for greater computing power for artificial intelligence projects is expected to rest on the firm’s latest supernode computing cluster systems, as these take on rival platforms from Nvidia and xAI. The Atlas 950 and Atlas 960 SuperPoDs, as well as the Atlas 950 and Atlas 960 SuperClusters, are expected to help the Shenzhen-based firm “circumvent the limitations in China’s chip manufacturing process”, Huawei deputy chairman Eric Xu Zhijun, who serves as the privately...

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last month China exports to Africa soar, Super Typhoon Ragasa: SCMP daily highlights

Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Super Typhoon Ragasa: Shenzhen to evacuate 400,000, Guangdong suspends trains Cities in China’s southern provinces are bracing for Ragasa, the strongest typhoon to hit the country this year, with Shenzhen warning of “disastrous calamities” ahead and preparing to relocate hundreds of thousands of people. 2. China’s exports to Africa up by 25% as Trump’s...

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last month Super Typhoon Ragasa: Shenzhen to evacuate 400,000, Guangdong suspends trains

Cities in China’s southern provinces are getting ready to face Ragasa, the strongest typhoon to hit the country this year, with Shenzhen warning of “disastrous calamities” ahead and preparing to relocate hundreds of thousands of people. The National Meteorological Centre (NMC) said on Sunday that Ragasa, the 18th typhoon this year, had intensified into a super typhoon on Sunday morning and was expected to bring strong winds and heavy rainfall to wide areas of the country’s southern and eastern...

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