Minimum salary

SHENZHEN will raise the minimum salary for full-time employees to 2,360 yuan (US$369.15) per month starting Jan. 1, 2022, according to the Shenzhen Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau.

Minimum wage for non-full-time employees will be 22.2 yuan an hour. The increase is set to improve residents’ sense of happiness, attract more labor resources and promote industrial upgrading, bureau officials said.

SZ-Macao ferries

SHENZHEN Oceanus Group will add three ferry trips between Shekou and Macao every Saturday and Sunday starting today. The trips are from Shekou to Macao Outer Harbor Ferry Terminal departing at 3:30 p.m., with return trip at 5:30 p.m., and from Shekou to Macao Taipa Ferry Terminal departing at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., with return trips at 12:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m., respectively.

During workdays, eight ferry services are still running between the two cities’ ports.

Illegal fundraising

FUTIAN police have arrested 74 suspects for their involvement in collective fraud and illegal fundraising.

The suspects include founder of Hongling Capital, a large P2P lending platform set up in 2008, and its employees as well as those of its associated firms.

Police also seized the suspects’ properties in Jiangsu, Guangdong, Hunan, Zhejiang, Anhui, Sichuan and Beijing, and froze stocks, accounts and shares of its associated firms. Some of the shareholders, executives and employees have returned their illegal gains to the police’s designated accounts.