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Shekou International School’s new school rooms at Nan Hai Mei Gui:

SHEKOU International School (SIS) will open a new campus in August to accommodate more students.

The new Bayside Campus, designed by a European company, is being built next to the Coastal Rose, said Robert S. Dunseth, director of SIS, adding that it “will be state-of-the-art and designed for optimal learning.”

The building will feature a large, dedicated media center, a second school library, a research zone, an art area including art studios, music rooms, digital music studio, a 250-seat theater, open plan classrooms, high-tech science labs, and an all-day cafe. All students will be able to access wireless laptop computers, counseling and career guidance, outdoor basketball and volleyball courts, a mini-fitness center, and swimming, tennis and aerobics facilities.

Most of the new classrooms overlook the sea, while the others overlook a garden.

The campus will accommodate junior and senior high school students and applications from new students are now being accepted.

The school is also offering four scholarships, worth US$5,000 each, sponsored by International Schools Services of Princeton, New Jersey, to senior high school students who demonstrate academic excellence and leadership.

Beside the new Bayside Campus, SIS is to open its new Sports Complex, costing more than 1 million yuan, later this month.

It will include a new all-weather running track, full-sized basketball court, and soccer pitch.

Improvements are also being made to SIS’ mountainside campus.

SIS, a major international education establishment in Shekou, enrolled 150 more students this year and now serves 35 nationalities.

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100 *tons* of trash per day at Da Mei Sha beach!

From May 2007 SZ Daily Newspaper:

Entrance fee proposed for Dameisha

A PROPOSAL to charge a fee to enter the crowded Dameisha beach has been revived on the Internet after media reports said tourists left nearly 100 tons of garbage daily on the beach during the first three days of the May Day holiday. 

The proposal aims to reduce the number of visitors.

As early as August 2002, the Yantian District Government proposed to the city government to charge such a fee. As the debate has continued, the amount of garbage left on the beach has risen from a daily peak of 60 tons in 2003 to 100 tons this year.

“The beach can accommodate a maximum of 50,000 tourists each day, but nearly 300,000 came May 1. According to our plans, the beach should charge an entrance fee between May and July, but open free at other times. Otherwise all we can do is beef up management and send more cleaners,” said Luo Xionghui, director of the beach.

“Free meals are not always delicious,” said a netizen who called himself Canghailiunian

“I’ve been there several times. Each time, I found plastic bags and bottles in the sea.”

Fewer visited the beach Wednesday. Cao Hongna, an employee with a bakery in Bantian, Bao’an District, said she had chosen not to come during the holiday. “They should charge an entrance fee during holidays so that fewer people come.”

Sima Bing, an environment official and political adviser with Yantian, proposed early this year that the beach charge a fee during peak seasons.

“Between May and October, especially during the May Day and National Day holidays, 10 times more people come to the beach, causing traffic jams, garbage and deteriorating sea water quality. The pollution is damaging Dameisha year after year,” he said.

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Car Parking in the center of Shenzhen is getting ridiculously expensive… more expensive per square foot than office space:

• Annual parking place at Diwang: 10,860 RMB (up 40% from 2005)

• Average office space in Diwang = 120-130RMB/ sq m, about 20 RMB less than the monthly rent for a sq m of parking space

• CITIC plaza - 650 RMB / month, up 62%

• MIXc and China Resources Building = 12,000 RMB / yr

Part of the reason for the high fees is the “commercial land use fees” payable to the SZ Govt per sq m - about 3000 RMB per year per spot, which is exacerbated by not having all the parking spaces rented out. The reason for these new fees (starting Sep 06) was a deliberate drive to top people driving into the city center. Hm, dream on.

from the SZ Daily in May 07:
Fears raised over parking lot speculation

 WHILE many local car owners say they will buy a parking space if they can afford it, would-be-owners worry there will be no more spaces left if authorities legalize parking lot sales.

The city’s land resources and housing management bureau announced Tuesday that parking spaces in housing estates might be allowed to be sold, rent and mortgaged after being registered with the authorities and awarded a property ownership certificate.

As most housing estates do not build enough parking spaces to go with each apartment, many worry developers will speculate and sell them at sky-high prices.

Parking spaces can be sold to those living elsewhere and areas also need to be reserved for temporary parking, according to a draft regulation under consideration.

International common practice is to build parking lots in proportion to the number of vehicles. While a reasonable proportion is a parking space for every 1.2 cars, the proportion in Shenzhen is 1:3.3.

A Futian resident who only gave his surname as Wang keeps an office in Diwang Mansion. He had been looking forward to the new regulation for a long time. “The monthly parking fee in the car park underground Diwang rose from 780 yuan (US$101.29) to 1,050 yuan since the new charging criteria came into effect last September. For 10 years of the parking fee, you can buy a space, which may appreciate with time,” he said.

Another resident said he would buy more than one parking space in the housing estate where he lives if possible. “It’s new stuff. While housing prices and the stocks have risen quite a lot, parking lots could be a good thing to invest in. Whether it’s rent or bought, the returns will be good,” he said.

More than 1 million vehicles have so far been registered in Shenzhen, and the number will soon reach 2 million, given the fact that some 200 new cars are being sold daily.

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