Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Compact |
Owner(s) | Shenzhen Press Group |
Publisher | Shenzhen Press Group |
Founded | July 1, 1997 |
Language | Chinese, English |
Headquarters | 21 Shangbao Building, Futian District, Shenzhen, China |
Circulation | 100,000 |
Website | www szdaily |
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Simplified Chinese | 深圳日报 | ||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 深圳日報 | ||||||||||
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Shenzhen Daily is an English-language newspaper published in Shenzhen. Established on July 1,1997,Shenzhen Daily is the first local English-language daily on the southern Chinese mainland. [1] [2]
Shenzhen Daily began publication in 1997 as a sister newspaper to its Chinese-language counterpart. It is currently the only English-language daily newspaper in southern Mainland China.
Guangzhou,also known as Canton,is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. Located on the Pearl River about 120 km (75 mi) north-northwest of Hong Kong and 145 km (90 mi) north of Macau,Guangzhou has a history of over 2,200 years and was a major terminus of the maritime Silk Road;it continues to serve as a major port and transportation hub as well as being one of China's three largest cities. For a long time it was the only Chinese port accessible to most foreign traders. Guangzhou was captured by the British during the First Opium War and no longer enjoyed a monopoly after the war;consequently it lost trade to other ports such as Hong Kong and Shanghai,but continued to serve as a major transshipment port. Due to a high urban population and large volumes of port traffic,Guangzhou is classified as a Large-Port Megacity,the largest type of port city in the world. Due to worldwide travel restrictions at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic,Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport,the major airport of Guangzhou,briefly became the world's busiest airport by passenger traffic in 2020.
With Macau's small population and market,only a few media options are available for the local people. Because radio signals,newspapers and magazines from Hong Kong are available in Macau,the local media are always a minority group in terms of sales and number of viewers.
Guangdong,Cantonese:Canton or Kwangtung,is a province in southern China. It is China's top economically developed province and located on the north shore of the South China Sea,bordering Hong Kong. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.84 million across a total area of about 179,800 km2 (69,400 sq mi),Guangdong is the most populous province of China and the 15th-largest by area as well as the second-most populous country subdivision in the world. In the province,the most developed city is Shenzhen,which directly borders Hong Kong and is often described as China's Silicon Valley.
Shenzhen is a city and special economic zone on the east bank of the Pearl River estuary on the central coast of the southern Chinese province of Guangdong,bordering Hong Kong to the south,Dongguan to the north,and Huizhou to the northeast. With a population of 17.56 million in 2020,Shenzhen is the third most populous city by urban population in China after Shanghai and Beijing. Shenzhen is a global center in technology,research,manufacturing,business and economics,finance,tourism and transportation,and the Port of Shenzhen is the world's fourth busiest container port.
The New Territories is one of the three main regions of Hong Kong,alongside Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory,and contains around half of the population of Hong Kong. Historically,it is the region described in the Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory. According to that treaty,the territories comprise the mainland area north of Boundary Street on the Kowloon Peninsula and south of the Sham Chun River,as well as over 200 outlying islands,including Lantau Island,Lamma Island,Cheung Chau,and Peng Chau in the territory of Hong Kong.
Zhongshan is a prefecture-level city in the south of the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong province,China. As of the 2020 census,the whole city with 4,418,060 inhabitants is now part of the Guangzhou–Shenzhen conurbation with 65,565,622 inhabitants. The city-core subdistricts used to be called Shiqi or Shekki.
The Shenzhen Stock Exchange is a stock exchange based in the city of Shenzhen,in the People's Republic of China. It is one of three stock exchanges operating independently in Mainland China,the others being the Beijing Stock Exchange and the Shanghai Stock Exchange. It is situated in the Futian district of Shenzhen.
Luohu District is a district of Shenzhen,China,located north of the New Territories of Hong Kong,east of Futian District,southeast of Longgang District,southwest of Pingshan District,and west of Yantian District. It is one of the oldest parts of the city,having represented Shenzhen as a fishing village before 1953 and a market town from 1953 to 1979,when Bao'an County was promoted to a prefecture-level city and renamed Shenzhen.
World Journal is a Pan-Blue Taiwanese broadsheet newspaper published in North America. It is the largest Chinese language newspaper in the United States and one of the largest Chinese language newspapers outside of Greater China,with a daily circulation of 350,000. The newspaper is headquartered in the Whitestone neighborhood of Queens in New York City.
The Hong Kong Commercial Daily (HKCD) is a Chinese state-owned newspaper,published in broadsheet format in Hong Kong and dubbed “China’s international media window”by the central government. Established in 1952,it was the first financial newspaper in the Chinese language. It is one of the few newspapers authorized by the Hong Kong SAR government to publicize legal announcements,and also the only Hong Kong newspaper allowed to be circulated freely in mainland China. It is controlled by the Hong Kong Liaison Office and has a branch office in Shenzhen.
Dongguan is a prefecture-level city in central Guangdong Province,China. An important industrial city in the Pearl River Delta,Dongguan borders the provincial capital of Guangzhou to the north,Huizhou to the northeast,Shenzhen to the south,and the Pearl River to the west. It is part of the Pearl River Delta built-up area with more than 65.57 million inhabitants as of the 2020 census spread over nine municipalities across an area of 19,870 square kilometres (7,670 sq mi).
Media in Macau are available to the public in the forms of:television and radio,newspapers,magazines and the Internet. They serve the local community by providing necessary information and entertainment. Macau's media market is rather small. The local media face strong competition from Hong Kong.
The Hong Kong section of the Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link is a 26 km (16 mi) long stretch of high-speed rail that runs along a dedicated underground rail corridor linking Hong Kong to mainland China. It is one of the most expensive infrastructure undertakings in Hong Kong's history. The line connects Kowloon with the high-speed rail network of China at Futian station in the technology hub of Shenzhen,then running north towards the commercial/ political hub of Guangzhou. As of August 2023 the line has an average ridership of 79,000 passengers a day.
Shenzhen Foreign Languages School is a middle school and high school in Shenzhen,Guangdong,China specializing in language studies. It provides students with study in English,Japanese,French,German,Spanish and Russian. The school is known for its performance in the Chinese university administration examination Gaokao. In a 2016 ranking of Chinese high schools that send students to study in American universities,Shenzhen Foreign Language School ranked number 19 in mainland China in terms of the number of students entering top American universities.
Shenzhen College of International Education,more widely known by its acronym SCIE,is an international high school situated by the Antuo hill,in Futian District,Shenzhen,China. The school offers a four-year high-school program,adopting mainly Cambridge Assessment International Education (CAIE) IGCSE and GCE A-level curriculums,and are taught mostly in English.
Futian station is a station on the Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link,and the final station in mainland China before trains enter Hong Kong. Futian District is in southern Shenzhen,where the central business district is located. The station opened on 28 June 2011 serving the Shenzhen Metro,and since 30 December 2015 it has been the first underground high speed railway station on a long-distance line in China. It serves as an interchange station between the Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link and Line 2,Line 3 and Line 11 of the Shenzhen Metro.
Mandarin Chinese is the primary formal Chinese language taught academically to Chinese Filipinos in Chinese Filipino schools and across other schools and institutions in the Philippines,especially as the formal written Chinese language.
The Chinese University of Hong Kong,Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen) is a public research university in Shenzhen. Located on the southern coast of China near Hong Kong,it is a joint venture between the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Shenzhen University,as the local partner. CUHK-Shenzhen was officially founded on 11 October 2012,and approved by the Ministry of Education of China on 16 April 2014.