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At a GlanceDengliang Road closedDUE to construction on the extension of Metro Line 9, the section of Dengliang Road between Nanhai Boulevard and Jiannan Road will be closed for six months, from July 15 to Jan. 4, 2018.

Drivers are advised to take Dongbing Road, Longcheng Road or other alternative routes.Traffi c accidentA WOMAN who was looking at her mobile phone while crossing the road was run over by a dump truck in a village in Longgang District on Sunday.

The truck driver claimed that he was making a turn with his truck and the woman happened to be in the blind spot. Witnesses claimed that the victim was playing on her phone and did not see the truck coming.Community busA COMMUNITY bus route, B964, linking the Nanshan government service hall at Shenzhen Bay Sports Center and stations of Metro lines 2 and 11 was put into operation Monday.

Six buses on the 7 kilome-ter route will operate at 5-10 minute intervals between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m.Bus route planSHENZHEN will adjust 45 bus routes, add four routes and cancel 18 routes in its latest plan to optimize the bus network in Shiyan, Fuyong, Songgang, Guanlan, Baolong and Bantian areas.

Some bus routes will be canceled because of the open-ing of the Longhua tramline at the end of this month. Some routes will be canceled or con-solidated due to redundancy and low passenger turnover.

The public can check the details of the plan at www.sztb.gov.cn, the offi cial website of the city’s trans-port commission, from June 6 to 12 and give feedback by calling the transport information service center at 8322-8000, or emailing szdsjt_800@163.com, the mail box of the city’s urban transport planning and design research institute.

WITH the last sewage drain outlet in the Shenzhen River and the Shenzhen Bay being sealed Saturday, all of the 31 sewage drain outlets in the river-bay area have been eliminated, which is a big step toward improving the Shenzhen Bay’s water quality, the Shenzhen Special Zone Daily reported yesterday.

In February 2015, China Overseas Property won the bid for the Ludancun estate reno-vation project. However, after the reconstruction work had started, the company found

that there was a 4.5-meter-long and 1.2-meter-wide rainwater culvert beneath the renovation area. The box culvert, which also served as a sewage drain-age, discharged 20,000 cubic meters of untreated sewage to the Shenzhen River per day. The river connects with the Shenzhen Bay in the west.

By coordinating with the construction company and the police, the city’s water affairs bureau sealed the box culvert Sat-urday, marking the elimination of the last sewage drain outlet in

the Shenzhen River and Bay area. The sewage collected by the box culvert will be detoured to the water quality improvement sta-tion near the Buji River and the treated water will be discharged into the river.

The bureau’s spokesperson said that river regulation work in the Shenzhen River and Bay area has made progress and the following work will be focused on the separation of rain and sewage water drainages and pollution control in the area.

The Shenzhen River and Bay

area is one of the city’s earliest developed and fastest-growing areas with a dense population and closely packed buildings. But the area’s sewage collec-tion and disposal system was underdeveloped, leading to the discharge of untreated sewage into the Shenzhen Bay for a very long time.

The bureau has taken various measures to improve the water quality in the area since the city government pledged to improve the water environment in Shen-zhen in late 2015. (Zhang Yang)

Last sewage outlet in Bay area sealed

THE city’s market inspection bureau warned that residents should be wary of marketing campaigns trying to trick cus-tomers, mostly the elderly, with “free experiences.”

The bureau has investigated 11 cases involving false adver-tising of health products by companies that target senior residents since March, the Southern Metropolis Daily reported yesterday.

The bureau’s law enforcers raided a marketing activity held in a Futian hotel Sunday. A so-called expert was giving a lecture to over 300 elderly residents — some of whom were diagnosed with various chronic diseases — and convincing them of the anti-cancer effi cacy of certain health products sold by a Shenzhen-based company.

The law enforcement offi cers found that the event organizer had exaggerated the effi cacy of the health products and adver-tised the medical effi cacy of a non-medical product. The offi -cers then raided the company’s seven branches in Shenzhen and found that the company was involved in false advertising. The bureau has fi led a case for further investigation.

The bureau has launched an operation to crack down on irregularities in marketing cam-paigns that trick elderly custom-ers with “free experiences” since March. The city’s market quality supervision administration has raided 1,413 stores across the city, seized over 1,000 products and ordered sellers to refund a total of 60,000 yuan (US$8,696) to customers.

Residents are warned to be wary of marketing activities that advertise the “magical effi cacy” of certain food or medicines. They can call 12315 to verify a product’s authenticity. (Zhang Yang)

False ads targeting seniors probed

A train runs on a tramline in a test in Longhua District. A variety of plant species, from blossoms to bushes and trees have been planted along the line, with grass covering the tracks. The 11.72-km tramline is expected to be put into trial operation by the end of this month after a two-month running test. The Longhua tramline, running from Qinghu to Xinlan, consists of a main line and a branch line. It has 20 stations on the main line and fi ve on the branch line with an average distance of 590 meters. Liu Yujie

Longhua tramline has green tracks

TWO people from Vietnam were busted at Huanggang Check-point on Saturday when they attempted to enter Hong Kong illegally by hiding under border-crossing trucks, according to the Huanggang Border Exit and Entry Inspection Station.

At 9:20 p.m. Saturday, an offi -cer on duty in the cargo yard of Huanggang Checkpoint received a report from a Hong Kong truck

driver, who said that he suspected that someone was hiding under his truck when he checked his vehicle before entering an outbound lane of the checkpoint.

The offi cers started to inspect the truck and found a woman hiding underneath. The woman was a Vietnam national and was attempting to stow away under the truck to Hong Kong.

In another incident 10 minutes

later, offi cers at the checkpoint found that another truck was abnormal through their detect-ing system and seized a man, also Vietnamese attempting to stow away to Hong Kong.

The checkpoint has an inspec-tion system that scans each truck passing through the checkpoint. Images are transmitted to the monitoring offi ce in real time.

(Han Ximin)

Two Vietnamese stowaways caught

THE city’s fi rst breast milk bank at the Bao’an District Maternal and Children’s Hospital has collected nearly 1.06 million milliliters of breast milk from donors since it was established in December 2015, the Southern Metropolis Daily reported.

A new mother in Futian Dis-trict, surnamed Zhang, brought her refrigerated breast milk to the milk bank last week as her supply of milk was more than enough for her 4-month-old baby.

Zhang is one of many new mothers in the city who have donated their spare breast milk to the milk bank over the past year and a half. A mother in Bao’an District, surnamed Xu, has been

donating her breast milk for 10 months since her baby was born, setting the milk bank’s record for milk volume provided by a single donor at 70,000 milliliters.

The bank delivers around 3,500 to 4,000 milliliters of breast milk each day, which benefi ts 20 to 25 premature or critically ill babies. The milk bank ensures the safety of the donated milk by running blood tests on donors, pasteurizing the collected milk and discarding the breast milk from donors who didn’t pass the tests immediately after the results come in.

The WHO recommends exclu-sive breastfeeding for the fi rst six months of life, with solids gradually being introduced

around this age when signs of readiness are shown. Breast-feeding offers health benefi ts to the mother and child even after infancy. These benefi ts include a 73-percent decreased risk of sudden infant death syndrome, increased intelligence and cold and fl u resistance.

There are over 3,000 pre-mature babies born in Bao’an District each year, and the preemies staying at the hos-pital’s neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) usually fail to get enough breast milk from their mothers. However, the situa-tion has been changing since the establishment of the milk bank, which supplies donated milk to the premature and critically ill

babies for free at the hospital.Mothers who want to make a

donation can go to the milk bank for an on-site collection or col-lect their breast milk at home and bring the milk to the hospital. They can also make an appoint-ment for door-to-door collection. The milk bank accepts fresh milk that has been collected within 24 hours or refrigerated milk col-lected within three months.

According to the milk bank, donors should be new mothers whose babies are younger than 10 months old and they should provide health certifi cates issued by top-class grade-A hospitals or have blood tests done at the milk bank before making a donation.

(Zhang Yang)

Breast milk bank supplies 4,000 ml of milk per day