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Exports of TV setsEXPORTS of LED TV sets from Shenzhen reached 8.49 million in the first five months of the year, an increase of 0.6 percent year on year.

The exports in May alone increased by 12.7 percent to a total of 2.06 million, statis-tics from Shenzhen Customs show. Exports to the U.S., European Union, Russia and the Middle East markets have kept up the increased momentum in both quanti-ties and prices since April.

City Lounge blueprintTHREE designs for the City Lounge planning of the Shenzhen North Station transportation hub have been decided after a six-month-long global design competition.

The Longhua District Plan-ning and Natural Resources Bureau will select the final winner from the three can-didates.

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SHENZHEN high-speed rail sta-tions estimate they will handle 13.22 million trips during the two-month summer travel season that will start today.

The stations for regular trains will handle 1.8 million pas-sengers over the two months, sources from Shenzhen North Railway Station showed.

The travelers of the summer holiday season are mainly stu-dents, tourists and business travelers. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, schools, colleges and universities in the country all have different times for the closing of term, but the travel peak for students is expected to hit in mid-August.

Shenzhen North Railway Sta-tion will increase its train trans-portation capacity by doubling the number carriages, from the current eight cars to 16 cars, on 54 pairs of trains including 21 pairs on the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong rail line and 33 pairs on the Hangzhou-Shenzhen railway.

Based on regular schedules, it will add 10 pairs of trains for express travel to Guangzhou, Changsha and Shantou, and five pairs of unscheduled trains to Shantou and Chaoshan.

For regular train services, the operator will add K9052/1 between Shenzhen East Station and Huaihua to handle peak travel and six pairs of tempo-rary trains between Shenzhen and Yueyang, Liling and Nanx-iong. The trains include K4355/6 with Nanchang, K6610/09 with Yueyang, K6582/1 with Liling, K6532/1 with Nanxiong, K6512/1 with Shaoguan and K6552/1 with Yongzhou.A TOTAL of 29 postdoctoral

researchers from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technol-ogy (SIAT), Chinese Academy of Sciences will receive subsidies from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation this year, Shenzhen Economic Daily reported yesterday.

The number of postdoctoral researchers from SIAT who are subsidized by the foundation has ranked first among Chinese scientific research institutes for four consecutive years.

The 29 researchers, whose research interests mainly focus on biology, materials science and engineering, and biomedi-cal engineering, will receive subsidies totaling 2.32 million yuan (US$328,048).

Looking at colleges and universities, 63 postdoctoral researchers from Shenzhen University (SZU) will be subsi-dized by the foundation.

Sun Yat-sen University, Tsin-ghua University and Zhejiang University are the top three universities with the most researchers to be funded this year, while SZU ranks ninth on the list. (Zhang Yu)

A SENIOR citizen and a child of 14 months were hit by a fall-ing tree branch while enjoying the cool air at their residential compound in Nanshan District on Saturday, Shenzhen Special Zone Daily reported.

The reporter with the Daily visited the site Monday and found that the area had been sealed off.

The branch, which is about 5 to 6 centimeters thick, had been chopped into several pieces and discarded at the residential compound’s lawn.

“The child, only 14 months old, fainted immediately at that

time. The kid was dying when taken to a Nanshan hospital and was later transferred to Shenzhen Children’s Hospital. Now, the kid is being treated in ICU,” said the child’s mother.

The senior citizen was slightly injured, the report said.

A staff representative of the property management office of the residential community surnamed Zhang said that the office had sent staff to visit the injured and reported the case to their supervisor after the accident.

The property management office’s officials suggested that

they will be responsible for the case.

The tree is located at a place easily affected by winds. The falling branch was probably caused by the recent typhoon that hit the city.

The office had reported their plan to trim trees damaged by the typhoon before the accident. They have checked all trees so far, according to Zhang.

A lawyer surnamed Kang from Shenzhen Huashang Law Firm suggested that the prop-erty management company should bear the responsibility according to laws. (Wang Jingli)

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AN underground garbage sta-tion at Changling Village in Luohu District was put into use yesterday, becoming the first one of its kind in Guangdong Province.

The underground gar-bage station, developed by a Shenzhen-based company, Sagacity Environment, covers an area of 300 square meters, which is smaller than the tra-ditional station which is around 500 square meters in size.

When garbage bins arrive at the station, workers at the site will first connect them to a hook attached to an above-ground container, about the size of a washing machine.

The garbage bins will then be turned over automatically as the waste is being transported into an underground container through the wall of the above-the-ground container.

During the process, water and liquid deodorant will be sprayed to suppress dust and to eliminate odors.

The underground garbage container will also be sprayed with liquid deodorant on a regu-lar basis to avoid smells.

Sewage produced from the garbage is designed to be col-lected in a special container and then be discharged into the city’s sewage pipes to fur-ther control smells.

During the COVID-19 epi-demic, a disinfection system

Underground garbage station in use

was launched to also disinfect garbage and avoid the spread of the virus through the spray system, according to staff from Sagacity Environment.

One underground container can hold 10 tons of garbage. The station, with two sets of the garbage transit equipment, can store 20 tons of garbage at a time, roughly a volume that is able to serve 30,000 citizens.

The whole machine also has several smart properties. For example, when the under-ground container reaches 85 to 95 percent of its capacity,

a signal will be sent to inform garbage trucks that it is time to transport the container to a final waste disposal site.

Additionally, when the smoke detector is triggered or the monitored temperature is too high, the fire equipment will be automatically unlocked to work to ensure safety.

Noise is also well controlled at the station.

“The noise is little when the machine is working. Some villagers complained that the station will be annoying in operation. But now their con-

cern disappeared,” said Wang Jianhui, one of the Changling villagers.

When the whole system stops working, there are only two washing-machine-sized containers seen in the area, sur-rounded by flowers and plants.

At present, only one person is needed to manage the whole station.

“We are planning to turn it to an unmanned garbage sta-tion at the end of this year or the beginning of next year,” said Wang Xiaobin, R&D director of Sagacity Environment.

Wang Xiaobin, R&D director of Sagacity Environment, demonstrates to the media how the underground garbage station works.Sun Yuchen

14-month-old severely injured by falling branch

Barge route opensA barge is seen on a sea route service for barges linking Yantian International Container Terminal and Hongwan Port in Zhuhai that was recently put into service.

Barges on the route will operate every Wednesday and Saturday. The trip between the two ports is about 14-15 hours. Under its operation model that carries cargo for export and domestic trade in the same vessel, the service improves the use of shipping space, increases freight delivery efficiency and lowers logistics costs for export companies. Pan Feng

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