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Wednesday September 20, 2017 02 x shenzhen

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Artifi cial islandTHE framework for the western artifi cial island of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Cor-ridor has taken shape in the Lingding Sea with 57 super-sized steel cylinders, each 28 meters in diameter, placed in the sea Monday, sources from Guangdong Transport Department said.

The diamond-shaped artifi -cial island, which is 625 meters in length and 456 meters at the widest point, will be a transit area for the 1,666-km bridge and underwater tunnel.

Work on the eastern artifi -cial island will commence this year and the bridge project is set to begin in March next year. The whole project will be completed and put into use in 2024.Violators fi nedSHENZHEN’S traffi c police caught 95,841 nonlocal vehi-cles that violated a restriction to drive in Shenzhen during rush hours over a two-week span by Sept. 14. Among them, 1,362 were fi ned for third-time violations. Drivers were each fi ned 300 yuan (US$46) and have had three penalty points added to their license.Shared-bike fi nesFUTIAN Urban Management Bureau is mulling a rule to fi ne shared bike operators for illegally occupying urban roads and sidewalks, a prob-lem caused by random park-ing by bike patrons.

A MAN holding several fake identities and forged documents was lucky to be employed as the legal director of a well-known enterprise in Shenzhen. His luck ran out, however, when he was caught and sued by the city procuratorate for overstepping his position and using counter-feit offi cial materials.

In 2015, the company intended to hire a legal director who would be appointed to manage legal issues on behalf of the head-quarters and its branch offi ces. It was then the unidentifi ed man submitted his seemingly perfect resume.

According to his fake CV, the man graduated with a bachelor’s degree in law from a well-know university in China and passed

the most competitive national judiciary examination. The man boasted a track record of profes-sional certifi cates, experience of working as a registered lawyer and claimed to have partook in an array of notable legal training.

All of the certifi cates were stamped with seals that con-vinced the company that this man was the right person for the position.

The fi nancial controller of the company, however, gradually noticed something amiss about the legal director’s behavior. For instance, the legal director always asked for funds from the fi nance department for business trips even if the legal issues were supposed to be resolved in Shenzhen.

After each business trip,

the man would return piles of tickets and invoices to apply for reimbursement, but never returned any of the money he had borrowed in the fi rst place. In total, he borrowed a few hun-dred thousand yuan from the fi nance department.

The man was also found asking for reimbursements with the invoice of prosecution expenses though the transac-tions should have been made through the company’s account rather than his own. The man said, however, he had to pay in advance with his own money due to urgent circumstances.

One day when the fi nancial controller checked the invoices of charges from the courts, he found that the date on one of

the voices was Sunday, which led to his suspicion about the legal director’s claims.

Compelled by his doubts, the fi nancial controller went to the court and the bank shown on the invoice only to discover the invoice was forged and did not have any legal backing. The fi nancial controller confi rmed that all invoices were counter-feit and none of the lawsuits existed after going through all the invoices provided by the legal director.

The legal director was pros-ecuted on several charges involv-ing overstepping his position, forging certifi cates issued by State departments and fabricat-ing seals of public institutions.

(Zhang Qian)

Imposter legal director sued for forgeries

A PASSENGER train tailored for transporting tourists to Kashgar in Xinjiang disembarked from Shenzhen for the fi rst time Monday, carrying 500 travel-ers for a 16-day trip that covers 5,000 kilometers.

The operation of the tourism train called Shenxin (an abbrevi-ation of Shenzhen and Xinjiang) was jointly initiated by several supporting agencies: the com-manding offi ce of the Shenzhen Counterpart Aid Work in Xin-jiang, Kashgar and Shenzhen

tourism bureaus, Shenzhen Travel Association and the Guangzhou Railway Group Corp. It was organized by Guangdong Railway Youth International Travel Service, Eachtravel Shenzhen and Shenzhen Port China Travel Service. It is part of Shenzhen’s efforts to support Xinjiang’s economic and tourism development.

Along the route, the train will pass by historic towns and cities such as Zhangye, Jiayuguan, Dunhuang, Turpan and Korla,

giving tourists a chance to visit the famous seven-colored Danxia Landform in Zhangye, an AAAAA-rated ancient town; a nat-urally formed desert oasis; relics of the ancient Silk Road and the charming sight of Lake Karakuri and Mount Muztagata, called “the father of ice mountains,” which is 190 kilometers from Kashgar.

The travelers can also make a visit to the Shenzhen City and Shenzhen Industrial Park that Shenzhen helped build in Kashgar. (Han Ximin)

Tourism train to Kashgar launched

A 1-YEAR-OLD baby who couldn’t breathe normally because of a rare disease was recently cured by doctors at the Shenzhen Hospital of Southern Medical University, the South-ern Metropolis Daily reported yesterday.

The baby, identifi ed as Beibei, has had diffi culty breathing and swallowing since birth. She was recently diagnosed with a con-dition called choanal atresia by

Liu Dabo, a chief physician at the Shenzhen Hospital of Southern Medical University.

According to the report, choanal atresia is a congenital disorder in which the posterior of the patient’s nasal passage is blocked, usually by abnormal bone or cartilage. The occur-rence rate of choanal atresia in infants is 0.0016 percent, with two-thirds of the patients being female. Currently, surgical

operation is the only practical way to treat the disease.

In an effort to reduce the patient’s pain, Liu decided to perform a minimally invasive operation on Beibei to reshape her choana using plasma technology.

After a one-hour opera-tion, Beibei regained a normal choana and was able to breathe without obstruction. Usually a patient with choanal atresia has to stay in an ICU for an extended

period after undergoing such an operation, but Beibei recovered quickly due to the reduced-inva-siveness of the operation and was discharged from the hospital only three days later.

The hospital is the fi rst in China to use plasma technology to treat children patients. Over 8,000 plasma operations have been performed on children by doctors at the hospital, according to the report. (Zhang Yang)

1-year-old girl suffering from rare disease cured

ACCORDING to Zhou Xiuhua, her wedding 10 years ago was a small family gathering with a simple meal. Now she has the chance to be a bride once more, and this time she’ll be escorted to the wedding venue on an electric bus worth over 2 million yuan (US$307,692).

A total of 20 electric buses of Shenzhen Eastern Bus Co. Ltd. were dispatched to pick up 10 pairs of newlyweds and 10 couples married for 10 years from downtown Longgang Dis-trict to attend a group wedding at Window of the World in Nan-shan District yesterday.

All of the 40 participants of the group wedding were employees working for the bus company. It was a company-ordained event to celebrate its 10th anniver-sary. The 20 electric buses were decorated with various elements representing each couple’s love story, managing to attract the attention of Shenzhen residents as they crossed the city.

Zhou and her husband Jiang Xinjun met at the bus company and fell in love. The couple, with their 10-year-old son, renewed their romantic vows at yesterday’s event.

Jiang said he’d always wanted to make up for the low-key wed-ding 10 years ago to his wife by organizing another wedding. His employer has made his dream come true.

Zhang Haili is another staff member working at the bus company’s technology depart-ment. She had been with her classmate-now-husband for nine years since 2008. The two came to Shenzhen after graduating from university and enthusiasti-cally participated in yesterday’s group wedding.

“We actually had two wed-dings in each of our home cities already, and today’s wedding is our third one, but we are still very excited,” said Zhang while she was waiting for her bus to pick her up. The couple is expecting their fi rst child. (Zhang Qian)

E-buses escort couples to wedding

A couple is greeted with fl owers before boarding an e-bus to attend a group wed-ding in the Window of the World theme park in Nanshan District yesterday.

SD-Agencies

E-buses to take couples to a group wed-ding. SD-Agencies

Travelers board a passenger train at Shenzhen Railway Station in Luohu District yesterday to go to Kashgar in Xinjiang. Liu Yujie