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Thursday May 3, 2018

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Phone smugglingA HONG KONG man was recently caught at Luohu Checkpoint attempting to smuggle 92 mobile phones across the border by tying them around his legs and waist.

The traveler entered Luohu Checkpoint walking slowly and stiffl y. His outfi t looked oversized. When customs offi cers instructed him to go through the detection gate, the alarm went off.

A further check showed the man had tied 56 mobile phones neatly around his legs and another 36 around his waist. After tying the phones together, the man used socks and a waist band to secure them.

The case has been handed to the anti-smuggling depart-ment for further investiga-tion.Holiday travelSHENZHEN railway, air, bus and ferry services handled 2.53 million travelers during the three-day May Day holi-day that ended Tuesday, 1.32 percent less than the same period last year.

The law enforcement units of the city’s transport com-mission caught 172 violations, including illegal buses, viola-tions by taxis and illegally operated app-based bikes.Border crossingSHENZHEN checkpoints saw a total of 2.31 million people crossing the border with Hong Kong during the May Day holiday, sources from Shenzhen General Station of Exit-Entry Frontier Inspec-tion said.

Statistics showed the checkpoints handled 82.13 million travelers between January and April.Land auctionA LAND parcel in Huangbei, Luohu District, was auctioned at the initial bidding price of 822 million yuan (US$129) to Shenzhen Zhizheng Wenbo Group Co.

This was the only land parcel up for auction in April. The 6,131-sqm land will be used to develop the cultural and creative industry.

SHENZHEN University (SZU) has the most alumni who are billionaires in China, according to a ranking released by cuaa.net, a website that ranks universities in China, the Shenzhen Evening News reported.

The website recently released two lists: a ranking of teaching quality among Chinese universi-ties and a list of universities most capable of cultivating people who can make a fortune.

According to the second list, SZU is ranked at the top thanks to eight of its alumni who have a

total fortune of nearly 600 billion yuan (US$94.75 billion).

The list is compiled based on the results of the 2018 Forbes World’s Billionaires ranking, which was released in March.

The Forbes global list ranked Pony Ma, Shenzhen University’s proudest alumnus, chairman of the board and CEO of Internet giant Tencent as the 17th richest person in the world and the rich-est entrepreneur in China and Asia with a fortune of US$45.3 billion.

The number of billionaires to

have graduated from a univer-sity is regarded as a key index in evaluating the university’s teaching quality and ability to cultivate outstanding entrepre-neurs.

Peking University and Hang-zhou Normal University, the alma mater of Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba Group, follow Shenzhen University to rank second and third for alumni fortune in China.

Pony Ma, Zhang Zhidong, one of the founders of Tencent and senior vice president of the

Shenzhen-based Internet giant, Li Shufu, chairman of board of Geely Auto, Zhou Qunfei, founder of Lens Technology, Shi Yuzhu, chairman of board of Giant Network, and Liang Guangwei, chairman of board of Shenzhen Huaqiang Group, are among the richest alumni of Shenzhen University. Their fortune, as shown on the 2018 Forbes World’s Billionaires, reached US$93.8 billion, making their alma mater the top univer-sity for alumni fortune in the country. (Zhang Qian)

A 5-YEAR-OLD child acciden-tally swallowed a 3-centimeter-long needle-shaped metal dental tool while receiving a root canal treatment at a dental hospital in Futian District on April 28. The tool was excreted from the child’s body that night, SZTV reported.

The boy, identifi ed as Yang-yang, was taken by his father to Fuhua Stomatological Hospital to get a second treatment for his bad tooth on the morning of April 28. Yangyang’s father was outside the treatment room where Yangyang was when the accident happened.

While a dentist, surnamed Li, was cleaning Yangyang’s bad tooth with a needle-shaped tool, he accidentally dropped the tool inside Yangyang’s mouth and Yangyang swallowed the metal tool.

According to Yangyang’s father, who did not know what had happened at that moment, several dentists in the hospital rushed into the room and called an ambulance after examining the child for less than 30 sec-onds. Yangyang was then sent to Shenzhen Children’s Hospital.

Through an X-ray examina-tion, a doctor at the children’s hospital confi rmed that the metal tool had already arrived to Yangyang’s large intestine. It was then Yangyang’s father realized that Yangyang had swallowed the metal tool.

Yangyang took a laxative medi-cation under the doctor’s instruc-tion and eventually excreted the tool by 8 p.m. that day. The boy stayed at the children’s hospital for further examination to check whether his intestines or stom-ach had been injured.

A nurse from the dental hos-pital arrived at the children’s hospital later and said she came to pay the treatment fee for the child and had also bought daily supplies as well as food for Yangyang.

The head of the dental hos-pital also paid several visits to Yangyang and said the hospital would take full responsibility for the accident. The hospital has already paid 1,000 yuan (US$157.31) for Yangyang and will shoulder more treatment fees if necessary.

According to the dental hos-pital, Li, who treated Yangyang,

was a licensed dentist and was using the tool to clean out the rotten part of Yangyang’s bad tooth. However, Yangyang was moving during the operation and the dentist dropped the tool.

When questioned about why Li had not attached a string to the tool so as to avoid dropping it, the dental hospital said there was not yet a compulsory rule requiring dentists to do so.

Another dentist from a public dental hospital responded by saying that China does not cur-rently have a regulation on sta-bilizing such tools with strings and each hospital follows their own methods.

A post on an online dentistry forum also showed that some dental tools are too smooth, so sometimes dentists might drop the tools in patients’ mouths by accident. Tying a string to the tool and to the dentist’s fi nger is the best way to avoid such a c c i d e n t s , according to the post.

(Zhang Qian)

ON Sunday noon in Nepal, Shenzhen mountaineer Liu Yong-zhong climbed to the summit of Lhotse, the fourth highest moun-tain in the world at a height of 8,516 meters, the Shenzhen Evening News reported.

So far, Liu has conquered 13 mountains higher than 8,000 meters. He said he will be com-pleting the ultimate challenge of climbing all 14 mountains over 8,000 meters soon. Liu plans to conquer his last target, Shisha-pangma, in September.

In fact, it took Liu three tries to climb to the peak of Lhotse. The mountaineer recalled that “each try is full of blood and tears.”

In April 2015, Liu attempted to embark on his fi rst climbing journey to Lhotse. However, the 8-magnitude Nepal earthquake stopped him from entering the camp at the foot of Lhotse.

“Five of our team members, including two guides, two expats and one Chinese, Ge Zhenfang, were killed by rocks rolling down from the mountain,” said Liu. The deceased members had entered the camp two days before Liu.

His second attempt took place in March 2016. However, trag-edy happened again when Liu and his team members reached 8,450 meters, only around 100 meters from the summit.

One of the local guides stum-bled and lost his balance. He slid down the snow slope behind Liu for more than 1,000 meters and the team could not even fi nd his remains when they got down there. The extreme weather also made Liu decide to give up climbing for the summit.

Liu fi rmly believes that climb-ing a summit does not depend solely on the diffi culty of the mountain, but also has a lot to do with the weather, the team’s abilities and physical condition. Luck is also a big contributor for successful climbing.

For the third attempt, Liu and his team members entered the camp April 8. They decided to climb to the summit on April 26, but a sudden change in the weather interrupted their plan.

“The weather appeared like it would be nice in the next two days, so we decided to try our luck Sunday,” said Liu. Although they had encountered strong wind while climbing from camp 2 to camp 4 at 7,800 meters, Liu and his team managed to make it to the summit. (Zhang Qian)

SZU tops nation in alumni fortune: List SZer conquers world’s 4th highest mountain

Liu Yongzhong poses for a photo on top of Lhotse in Nepal on Sunday.

Courtesy of Liu Yongzhong

Kid swallows metal dental tool by accident

A resident looks at an exhibit of old fi shing boats at Nanshan Museum yesterday. The city’s fi rst district-level museum, Nanshan Museum covers an exhibition area of more than 7,000 square meters. It is said to be one of the largest museums of its kind in the country. More than 10,000 residents have visited the museum since its opening in the beginning of this year. Exhibits featuring items excavated in the district dating back to 5,000 B.C. and achievements made over the four decades since the beginning of the reform and opening up in the city are displayed in the museum. Sun Yuchen

Nanshan Museum