Declining bike orders

MANY bicycle factories in Shenzhen had been expanding their app-based bike production lines to meet the demand from bike-sharing app operators since the end of last year. However, they didn’t expect the sharp decline in orders from operators that has come over the past few months, and some of them have had to shut down their production lines for shared bikes.

‘Wild beaches’

THERE are 56 beaches in Shenzhen, and 45 of them are “wild beaches” with management loopholes and potential safety hazards, a sznews.com report said.

Statistics showed that many of the drowning cases reported to the city’s emergency medical center over the past five years have happened at these “wild beaches.”

Mobikes exhibited

DURING a donating ceremony at Shenzhen Museum, two types of the most classic Mobikes, the app-based bike that first appeared on Shenzhen streets, were given to the museum, including the No. 100,000 memorial bike.

Fu Ying, head of the museum’s research center for China’s economic reform and opening-up, said that Mobike is the first app-based bike brand to be exhibited at a national-level museum. Mobike, known as one of the new Four Great Inventions, represents an important part of Shenzhen’s modern history, according to Fu.

New students

THE transit campus of Shenzhen MSU-BIT University welcomed its first batch of undergraduate students over the weekend. The 115 Chinese students, 33 coming from Shenzhen, will undergo a Russian language training program during their first four weeks at the university.

Han Baoling, a professor responsible for student admission at the university, said they have adopted an evaluation mode that assesses students based on their gaokao results, performance on the university’s independent exam and their all-around achievement at schools in seven provinces and one city.

OI kids’ gathering

OVER 200 child osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) patients, also dubbed China Dolls, gathered at the University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital (HKU-SZH) over the weekend for the 5th China Dolls National Conference for People with OI.

Along with their families, these young patients will experience a three-day conference that consists of workshops, a free clinic and group discussions to share their stories and encourage each other to combat the sickness.