Beer corridor SHENZHEN Tsingtao Beer Asahi Co. Ltd. has allocated 3 million yuan (US$434,700) to build a beer sightseeing corridor with a capacity to receive 2,000 people a day to experience the brewing process and make their own beer. The corridor is part of the company’s plan to build a beer town near Maozhou River, where the water quality has been greatly improved through treatment. The 400-meter-long corridor is being built alongside the factory buildings to allow visitors to learn about the entire beer-making process. Dragon boat rain A NEW round of heavy rain will affect the city this week ahead of the Dragon Boat Festival. There will be heavy rain in part of the city today and even torrential rain between tomorrow and Wednesday, according to Shenzhen Meteorological Observatory. Meteorologically, the rainfall in Guangdong and Guangxi, where the cold air from the north and warm current from the south meet, in the month around the Dragon Boat Festival, between May 21 and June 20, is referred to as dragon boat rain. iShenzhen service THE Shenzhen government service app iShenzhen opened the police service zone with 90 items, such as vehicle administration, certificate applications and registration of foreign newborns. The applications can be submitted on the app. App users can also find the nearest police stations, ATMs, service halls and hukou registration offices. The government agency services on the app cover 2,000 items since being launched this January. Employment guidance HONG KONG, Macao and Taiwan residents working in Shenzhen can register for unemployment insurance and enjoy the benefits of public employment services when they lose their jobs, according to a guidance released by the Shenzhen Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau. To register and apply for an unemployment pension, a person must meet one of the following requirements: One must have paid unemployment insurance for six straight months and accumulatively paid unemployment insurance for more than a year. If they, the unemployed and the employers, have paid the insurance for at least one year, the applicants can register for unemployment and apply for the pension at the valid time. Cashless fuel payment DRIVERS no longer need to pay for fuel in cash. Instead the payment can be automatically deducted from the 加油广东 app, or the WeChat mini-app of China Construction Bank (CCB), after it is tied to their vehicle’s license plate, according to an agreement signed by Sinopec Shenzhen and CCB Shenzhen recently. |