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WALKING into Nicolas Delader-riere’s apartment in Baishizhou, I was immediately attracted to the little robots made of paper and plastic that either stood on the display shelves in his living room or on the work bench in his study.
Deladerriere, a designer and co-founder of Trouble Maker, a famous maker space in Shenzhen, is such a fan of Chinese culture that he always thinks up ways to incorporate it into his creations. For example, he once collabo-rated with his American friend Tully making paper robots that could be burnt for the deceased on China’s Tomb-Sweeping Day. The robots they made were blue and yellow and each had a golden paper with an image of the God of Wealth on it.
However, Deladerriere said that the robots wouldn’t be put into the market. In his words, “We do it not for business, but
for fun. We just played a bit with traditional Chinese culture. Since it’s Tomb-Sweeping Day, we thought why not send robots to the spiritual world? ”
Robots are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the Frenchman’s products that carry Chinese elements. He also makes stickers and fridge magnets that are inspired by the urban villages in Baishizhou. Every day he sees them through the window of his study. Having been living in Baishizhou for nearly 10 years, he has wit-nessed the rapid development of the neighborhood.
“When I fi rst came here, some of the high-rise buildings didn’t exist, but now they are everywhere,” he said. He has recorded people’s lives in Baishi-zhou through his drawings. The buildings he drew were called “handshake buildings” since they stand next to each other.
Deladerriere feels a deep con-nection with Baishizhou and he even collected the signboard of
a demolished factory to keep it as a momento. “Some people say the urban villages are a pile of garbage, but I think they are full of life,” he said. “Life” is also perfectly refl ected in his drawings of those buildings. People biking and chatting on the narrow alleys, clothes being aired on the roofs or the steel windows and scaffold-ing being used constitute the key motifs of his drawings.
Deladerriere also makes Chi-nese-style stamps and vases. Instead of just carving people’s names, he includes people’s lives and personalities by carving things that speak for the person. For example, he once carved two dogs on a Singaporean client’s stamp because he had two pet dogs.
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Wednesday September 20, 2017
FOUR more trains departing from Shenzhen North Railway Station will stop at Pingshan Station during morning rush hour between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. starting from tomorrow, sources from Pingshan Station said.
The trains D2294, D2302, D2308 and D2346 will depart at 8 a.m., 8:05 a.m., 8:37 a.m. and 8:42 a.m., benefi tting morning commuters.
The rapid transit service between Shenzhen North Rail-way Station and Pingshan Sta-tion was launched Sept. 1, 2015 and was extended to Futian Station, Huizhou South Station
and Shanwei Station in January this year.
In another development, under the new train operation schedule that will take effect tomorrow, Shenzhen North Railway Station will operate 250 pairs of trains including 133 pairs on the Guangzhou-Shenzhen line and 117 pairs on the Shenzhen-Hangzhou line.
Under the new schedule, D7531/30 between Chaoshan and Guangzhou East Station and D7515/4 between Raoping and Guangzhou East Station will be extended to Guangzhou Station. G1016 from Shenzhen to Wuhan will be extended to Yichang East Station and the train number has been changed to G1036/7.
Guangzhou Railway Group Corp. said Monday it will add 157 trains, including 53 high-speed trains and 22 high-speed sleeper trains, for this upcom-ing National Day holiday travel peak between Sept. 28-Oct.8.
The operator estimates that 16.30 million passengers will be accommodated for those 11 days, an increase of 8.3 percent over the same period last year.
The increase in traveler num-bers is mainly due to the overlap-ping of National Day holiday and Mid-Autumn Festival.
On Oct. 1, the operator esti-mates there will be 1.9 million passengers, a new record for a single day in Guangzhou Railway Group Corp.’s history.
The 53 high-speed trains include trains between Guangzhou and Hunan cities such as Changsha, Shaoyang, Xinhuang, Yongzhou, Huai-hua, and Shenzhen with other Guangdong stations such as Chaoshan, Puning and Lufeng.
On Oct. 5, the operator will add train D7263 from Guangzhou to Zhuhai. On Oct. 6, it will add D7264 from Zhuhai to Guangzhou. On Sept. 30, Oct. 2, 7 and 9, the operator will add D2365/D2366 between Guangzhou and Nanning.
The sleeper trains include eight trains between Shenzhen and Beijing on Oct. 5 and one pair of trains between Shenzhen and Shanghai.
CUSTOMS authorities in Shenzhen have intercepted more than 7,000 beads made from the shells of an endangered species of clam, it was revealed Monday.
A suspect was caught in August with 7,319 bead-shaped objects in a suitcase at Luohu Checkpoint.
According to customs, the beads, weighing a total of 18.2 kg, were made of the shells of Tridacnidae, a giant clam listed as a Class I State-protected animal in China.
The case has been transferred to the customs’ anti-smuggling department for investigation.
Tridacnidae, commonly known as giant clams, is a taxonomic subfamily of very large saltwater clams. Also known as the “King of Clams,” they can grow to sizes as large as 1 meter or more and weigh up to 300 kg.
(Xinhua)
A 24-YEAR-OLD Shenzhen man who went missing in a desert in Xinjiang for two days was found Monday, the South-ern Metropolis Daily reported yesterday.
The man, Ye Yuanjie, a native of Qingyuan in northern Guangdong, is an employee of a company in Shenzhen. Ye arrived in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Sept. 10. He went missing Saturday afternoon, his last contact a call to his family. His family notifi ed the authori-ties Monday after not hearing from Ye for two days.
Ye got back in touch with his family later Monday. According to Ye’s sister, Ye was lost in a desert for two days and found the way back to civilization by himself.
His sister said Ye is currently receiving medical treatment at a local hospital in Xinjiang.
(Zhang Yang)
More trains to stop at Pingshan
Products of rare clams seized
Man safe after missing in desert for 2 days
POLICE in Central China’s Henan Province have arrested 172 members of Shanxinhui, a Shenzhen-based company suspected of organizing and leading a pyramid scheme.
All of them will face criminal charges, according to a state-ment issued by Henan police.
Others involved in the case will be treated with leniency if they turn themselves in by Sept. 30, according to the statement.
Chinese police have previ-ously investigated Shanxinhui for allegedly manipulating people into taking part in pyra-mid selling and cheating them out of huge amounts of property under the guise of helping the poor.
Several key members, includ-ing Zhang Tianming, the mas-termind of Shanxinhui, were arrested earlier this month on suspicion of obtaining illegal gains of more than 2.2 billion yuan (US$334 million).
They were suspected of inten-tionally distorting the country’s targeted policy to eradicate pov-erty to build a so-called “new economic ecological model,” while setting up a network on the Internet.
On July 30, Guangdong police detained 230 members of Shanxinhui. Beijing police also arrested 63 after members of the pyramid scheme gath-ered in the capital city July 24, Xinhua said in an earlier report.
In recent years, pyramid schemes have been expanding widely through social networks. Police investigated 2,826 pyra-mid scheme cases in 2016, 19.1 percent more than that in 2015, according to the Ministry of Public Security. (Xinhua)
Shared bikes jam Xinwen RoadA chaotic scene of a large number of randomly parked app-based bikes on Xinwen Road in Futian District yesterday. Residents said the number of bikes on Xinwen Road surged recently for no apparent reason, blocking pedestrian paths. Mobikes and Bluegogo promised to solve the problem as soon as possible after receiving a complaint from a Shenzhen Special Zone Daily reporter. The operators said they would designate staff members to each area to resolve the problem of disorderly parking. Li Dongming
Police arrest 172 pyramid gang members
French maker combines design with Chinese elements
Nicolas Deladerriere A vase designed by Deladerriere.
