Shenzhen News 31st August 2007
- Pest Control expert catches wasps, sells wasp wine
- Official plan is to rebuild 45 Urban Villages “within the year” meaning 80 million sq meters of new apartments. Offficials say this is to lower house prices… Urban villages house over 70% of the population of Shenzhen within the SEZ, who will be displaced and have to move to cheaper areas, meaning more people commuting into the city from the outer areas .
- 340 new HIV cases in SZ, bringing total reported to 2356; official figures put “heterosexual contact” as an infection cause of 33% of cases
- Doctors in one clinic in Songgang treat over 100 patients for Conjuntivitis every day for over a month
China
- Quality Standard put in place for mooncakes; all mooncakes for 2007 already made
- over 1100 sq km of Pearl River Delta coastal land will be submerged by 2050 according to sea level rise estimates
