Smugglers caught

A WOMAN in her 30s was caught attempting to smuggle SD cards across the border by hiding them under her bra and pants by Shatoujiao Customs recently.

At around midnight Aug. 18, the woman entered Shenzhen from Zhongying Street. In tight jeans and a loose white shirt, the woman walked calmly and slowly through Shatoujiao Checkpoint. This raised suspicions from customs officers as people are generally rushing home at this time of night. The on-duty customs officers asked her to stop for a check. The woman looked calm and cooperated with the inspection. Using hand-held detectors, customs officers found something suspicious around her body.

Later, they found three parcels of SD cards, 1,190 in total, under her bra and pants.

In a separate case Aug. 20, Shatoujiao Customs caught another woman using the same tactic to smuggle 1,910 SD cards.

The cases have been handed to the anti-smuggling department for investigation.

Brand-name street

THE Huaqiangbei Pedestrian Street was named one of China’s best-known business streets recently.

Huaqiangbei is known in China, and even around the world, as the center of electronic products. As the largest electronic components and parts transaction center in China, the business volume in Huaqiangbei business circle has reached 200 billion yuan (US$30 billion) a year.

Patent awards

BYD, Maxphotonics, DJI and Huawei Technologies won gold prizes at the third Guangdong Patent Awards, statistics from Shenzhen IPRs Administration showed.

At the 18th China Patent Awards, both Huawei and ZTE won gold prizes, making up half of the gold prizes won by Guangdong enterprises.