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Monday January 29, 2018 02 x shenzhen

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Kindergartens closedFIVE unlicensed kindergar-tens in Dalang Subdistrict, Longhua District, have been closed down by the local authority in a crack down on illegal businesses in the subdistrict. Some other kindergartens, which failed the fi refi ghting and hygiene standards, were ordered to suspend their operations. Sudden deathA MAN was found dead in his factory dormitory in Pinghu Subdistrict, Longgang Dis-trict, on Friday. According to his roommates, the unidenti-fi ed man had a cold and took some fl u medication he had purchased at a pharmacy near their factory. Emergency treatment failed to save him, and an autopsy has ruled out foul play. The drug store is a licensed pharmacy, and purchases its drugs through legal channels, according to Longgang police.Lunar eclipseRESIDENTS will be able to see the fi rst lunar eclipse of the year Wednesday night. According to the city’s astro-nomical observatory author-ity, the lunar eclipse will start at 7:48 p.m. and last for one hour and 16 minutes, during which residents will be able to see a total lunar eclipse with the naked eye.

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WHEN Jan Smejkal, now 26, came from the Czech Repub-lic to study at Peking U n i v e r s i t y HSBC Busi-ness School in Shenzhen three years ago, he didn’t know anybody. “I went some-where to meet people every single day when I didn’t have classes or at least three times a week, be it a Chinese corner, net-working events, or some meetups for expats,” said Smejkal.

One day, Smejkal stumbled upon Startup Grind, a global startup community powered by Google for Entrepreneurs and designed to educate, inspire and connect entrepreneurs. The community hosts monthly events in more than 300 cities in 115 countries featuring suc-cessful local founders, innova-tors, educators and investors who share personal stories and lessons they’ve learned as they built up companies.

“It’s entrepreneurial and amazing. They offered me an opportunity to join them as a team member and a volunteer,” recalled Smejkal, who is now the organization’s Asia & Pacifi c community director.

Smejkal said that Startup Grind is called “TED for start-ups” due to its similar model of inviting speakers to present their ideas. What distinguishes Startup Grind from TED is that speakers do not deliver a speech. “We interview them. We don’t want them to just prepare a speech and deliver it. We want the interaction,” said Smejkal.

One of the events that Sme-jkal found unforgettable was inviting Gary Vaynerchuk, an entrepreneur, author, speaker and Internet personality, who is best known for his work in digital marketing and social media.

“He is basically my idol. He is building an agency for social media. He is helping people to advertise online,” said Smejkal excitedly.

Vaynerchuk was going to Hong Kong for another confer-ence at that time, and Smejkal managed to get in touch with his team through a friend. “We started to talk about it. Although it was very hard, we managed to get him. It took me six months to fi gure out the right timing, the right value and communicating with his team.”

Smejkal wants to set up a company for Startup Grind in order to scale up and hold big conferences.

A DRIVER who was caught driving under the infl uence of alcohol (DUI) in October had a blood alcohol content four times the legal limit for drunk driving, the Shenzhen Special Zone Daily reported over the weekend, citing the city’s traffi c police.

The motorist, surnamed Xiong, was stopped by traffi c police offi cers at a regular road inspection in Longhua District on Oct. 24, 2017, and had a breath test, which showed his blood alcohol content had reached 393 mg per 100 ml, well surpassing the legal limit of 80 mg per 100 ml for drunk driving. A blood test later found Xiong’s blood alcohol content was 372.78 mg per 100 ml. Traffi c police offi -cers took Xiong to a hospital for

treatment as he seemed to be suffering from alcohol poison-ing. Xiong’s driver’s license was revoked and he was charged with dangerous driving.

Xiong was the drunkest motorist the city’s traffi c police caught last year, the traffi c police authority said.

According to the traffi c police, 5,505 DUI violations were caught last year, up 41. 3 percent from the previous year, as traffi c police stepped up its crack down on drunk driving in the city. Traf-fi c police checked 3,405,513 vehicles in 2017, three times the number of 2016, but the number of DUI violations wasn’t three times that of 2016, said Ma Yubing, a deputy director of the investigation brigade of the city’s

traffi c police bureau. Ma said the numbers showed that DUI cases were indeed decreasing under the tightened crackdown.

The traffi c police authority said the top 10 drunkest motor-ists caught last year all had blood alcohol contents above three times the legal limit. Seven of them were caught after causing traffi c accidents.

Ma said motorists should not assume that they are safe to drive even several hours after drinking.

Another driver, surnamed Chen, was caught for a DUI near the Peking University Shenzhen Hospital on Lianhua Road on March 13 and his blood test showed that his blood alcohol content had reached 343.04 mg per 100 ml. Chen said he had

drunk some liquor and several bottles of beer with friends at around 10 p.m. the previous day and waited until 2 a.m. to walk home. However, his blood alco-hol content was still shockingly high more than 12 hours after drinking.

Ma said the number of recent DUI cases has been rising. The authority caught 386 DUI driv-ers between Jan. 1 and Jan. 22. Ma reminded residents not to drive after drinking as the Spring Festival holiday season is approaching. “We will step up our crack down on drunk driving during the Spring Festival trans-port season. If you don’t want to spend the Lunar New Year behind bars, don’t drive after drinking,” Ma said. (SD News)

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SHENZHEN-BASED new-energy carmaker BYD will deliver 15 K9 electric buses and 18 charging poles to Alex-andria, Egypt’s second-largest city, according to deals signed between BYD and Alexandria’s bus bureau Jan. 24. This will be the fi rst batch of electric buses in Egypt.

Powered by BYD’s proprietary battery technology, the K9 has a range of 250 kilometers. The fl eet

of electric buses will be delivered within eight months after the two parties signed the deals.

Alexander has more than 2,300 years of history. The unique natural environment in Egypt, combined with a large number of vehicles that are second-hand or diesel cars, has long caused environmental pol-lution.

To create a cleaner and more comfortable urban environment for local residents and visitors, and enhance the image of the tourist city, the local government

is determined to promote envi-ronmentally friendly new-energy vehicles, said the governor of Alexandria, Mohamed Sultan.

In the pipeline are plans to assemble electric buses and electric cars in Egypt, con-struct a BYD SkyRail monorail through Alexandria’s congested city center and possibly develop the country’s solar energy sector, BYD said.

So far, BYD has exported new-energy vehicles to over 200 cities in more than 50 countries and regions.

NEW-ENERGY vehicles use electricity instead of gasoline, which help reduce emissions. However, a new issue concern-ing the environment deserves attention: the used batteries, said Zhang Xuan, a Shenzhen deputy to the Guangdong Pro-vincial People’s Congress during the provincial session Friday, sznews.com reported.

At a panel discussion of the Shenzhen delegation in Guangzhou, Zhang called for a system for recycling the scrapped batteries of new-energy cars,

which covers regulation, scien-tifi c research and fi nancial sup-port, to be established as soon as possible to prevent possible ecological disasters.

There are two types of new-energy vehicles: cars that only use batteries and hybrids that use gas and batteries. Guangdong is home to a large number of new-energy vehicle manufacturers.

Zhang said in the discussion that the battery-life of new-energy vehicles is far shorter than the life of the vehicle. The province is currently lacking a

system for recycling used batter-ies, which will inevitably pollute the environment if not handled properly.

Though some State-level departments enacted regula-tions about recycling the used batteries of new-energy vehicles over the past two years, no spe-cifi c methods were implemented. Relevant regulations on the cir-culation of new-energy vehicles are also missing, especially for the used batteries of imported electric cars like Tesla.

“If we don’t establish a regu-

latory system right now, there could be a major ecological disaster in the future,” said Zhang. He suggested the prov-ince set up an integrated offi ce for recycling the used batteries of new-energy vehicles and to make detailed rules for every step of recycling.

A supervision mechanism concerning all aspects of society was also called for. (Zhang Qian)

Police unveil 10 drunkest motorists

BYD electric-bus fl eet to enter Egypt

Deputy proposes system for recycling used EV batteries

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Jan Smejkal

TV anchorwoman Chen Luyu (R) talks about her new book at the Book City CBD store yesterday. Chen is liked by many people for her talk show, which has been on the air for 15 years. Sun Yuchen

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