4 | Friday, May 21, 2021 EDITION | DAILY CHINA upgrading urban Spear dance Shaking management to lure talent Shenzhen By ZHOU MO in Shenzhen [email protected] Housing, education and health­ Inclusive and fair care services have topped the urban management agenda of the public services are sealed off Shenzhen government as it seeks to probably the core build on its appeal to talent. By PEI PEI Shenzhen’s population grew by elements of a city’s in Shenzhen, Guangdong 7.13 million in the past decade, reach­ attractiveness.” [email protected] ing 17.56 million last year, in a strong reflection of the southern city’s eco­ Zhou Zhonggao, The 356­meter­tall SEG Plaza nomic and labor attractions, accord­ researcher at the Guangdong skyscraper in Shenzhen has shak­ ing to a Guangdong provincial Academy of Social Sciences en every day since Tuesday after­ census released last week. noon, a security guard at the The increase surpassed even that that the city’s homeownership was building said on Thursday. of Jiangsu province, whose popula­ only 23.7 percent — far below “No one has been allowed to tion grew by 6.09 million from 2010­ Guangzhou’s at 54.9 percent and stay in it since 1:30 pm today,” he 20, the latest national data shows. Hong Kong’s 49 percent. said. “As for when staff members Jiangsu had the third­largest popula­ Shenzhen’s soaring home prices can access the building, they tion growth after Guangdong and are seen to be forcing many people to should call the property manage­ Zhejiang province. leave, as shown in a reduction in the ment company to get exact infor­ Young people are said to be partic­ number of students enrolled at pri­ mation tomorrow.” ularly keen to work and live in Shen­ mary schools and the number of Before the third episode of zhen, while those aged 60 or above mobile phone users in the city last shaking occurred on Thursday, accounted for merely 5.36 percent of year. merchants had been allowed to Shenzhen’s population — far below Aware of the situation, the local enter the building to deal with the national average of 18.7 percent. government has stepped up efforts to A member of the Miao ethnic group performs a dance on spear tips for tourists at a traditional festival business matters. To maintain the momentum in ease the problem. Compared to pre­ in Tongren, Guizhou province, on Wednesday. HUANG YUFAN / FOR CHINA DAILY There were some 15,000 people luring young, well­educated people vious measures that mainly focused inside when it first started wob­ to Shenzhen, the city’s authorities on curbing demand, they’re now bling on Tuesday. They were safe­ have been upgrading urban manage­ focusing on increasing land supply, ly evacuated within 90 minutes. ment, especially in public services. which analysts and observers believe Authorities immediately Zhou Zhonggao, a researcher at remains at the core of the issue. launched investigations to try to the Guangdong Academy of Social Shenzhen’s government has discover what was causing the Sciences, said providing good public pledged that its land supply for con­ Guizhou now magnet building to shake. services is a key factor in attracting struction for residential use this No safety abnormalities have people to live and work there. Inclu­ year will account for a record 32.1 yet been found in the main struc­ sive and fair public services are prob­ percent. For last year and 2019, it ture of the building or the sur­ ably the core elements of a city’s was 24.4 percent and 14 percent, rounding environment. Its inner attractiveness, he said. respectively. steel structure and decorative Zhou noted that the existing In his government work report for foreign investment surface are in normal condition. household registration, or hukou, delivered at Shenzhen’s annual No earthquakes have occurred policies in Shenzhen and “two sessions” this month, Shenz­ in the city according to official Guangzhou have played an active hen Mayor Qin Weizhong said a records. role in luring high­quality labor, but total of 750,000 units of homes will Provincial Party chief says data­based class data storage centers, bolster­ From 9 pm on Tuesday to 3 pm the rapid population growth has put be built in the next five years. ing the local economy. on Wednesday, a number of pro­ heavy pressure on public services, The local authorities are also tak­ growth integrated with real economy Shen said data­based growth has fessional organizations closely such as transportation, housing, ing big steps to meet the growing achieved “profound integration” monitored the skyscraper’s vibra­ education and medical care. demand for education and medical By LI LEI thousands of years and is marching with the province’s real economy. tion, tilt and subsidence. The In accommodating Shenzhen’s care, as more people come and live in [email protected] toward common prosperity,” Shen Lu Yongzheng, head of the prov­ three indicators were far below growing population, one of the most the city. Shenzhen plans to provide said. ince’s publicity department, said levels that would prompt con­ pressing issues that need to be 900,000 new school places for basic Mountainous Guizhou province Underpinning the progress has Guizhou has attracted investments cerns, and data from the monitor­ addressed is housing. A 2019 report education and 20,000 new hospital has become a magnet for invest­ been the rapid expansion of infra­ from 26 foreign enterprises that ing did not reveal any by Beike Research Institute showed beds in the next five years. ment after recently eradicating structure such as roads and bridges. rank among the world’s top 500 abnormalities, the city’s housing some of the country’s most Shen said the province was a companies. and urban­rural development entrenched poverty and embark­ front­runner among western He added that while protecting bureau said in a statement. ing on a greener development path, regions in bringing highways to all data security and privacy, the pro­ The tilt rate of the building is Report: Coordinated global its Party chief said on Thursday. its counties and now has a sprawl­ vincial authorities will also open between 0.01 percent and 0.02 All the 9.23 million poor people ing high­speed railway network up public data in an effort to pro­ percent, which is less than the in rural parts of the province in connecting it to major city clusters mote the development of the data allowable tilt standard of 0.2 per­ response needed, expert says 2012 had shaken off that plight by around Beijing, Shanghai, Chong­ industry. cent, it said, and the building the end of last year, with almost 2 qing and Guangzhou, Guangdong Lu said the province will contin­ trembled up and down instead of From page 1 gency of international concern, its million of them moved out of iso­ province. ue to protect user data and privacy swinging from side to side. highest level of alarm, on Jan 30, lated mountain villages, Shen Yi­ The province’s expressway net­ “as it has always done”, and has Preliminary findings by an “In our eight months of work, the 2020, according to the report. qin, Guizhou’s Party secretary, told work now extends more than 7,600 invited domestic and foreign enter­ expert investigative panel said team set a clear goal, which is to draw Li Liming, a professor at Peking a news conference in Beijing. kilometers, and it is home to more prises to “sail the blue sea of data”, the shaking was likely due to a lessons from the pandemic and offer University’s School of Public Health, She said the province’s GDP than half of the world’s highest share the data dividend and combination of factors — the suggestions for the future,” Zhong said many countries wasted a great reached 1.78 trillion yuan ($276 bil­ bridges. together build a community of influence of wind, two subway Nanshan, a prominent Chinese res­ deal of time by adopting a “wait­and­ lion) last year, placing it 20th out of The developments have given it shared future for humanity. lines in operation below the piratory expert on the panel, said in see” attitude throughout last February. 31 provincial­level regions, up from an advantageous position in open­ The province rolled out the building and a large temperature an interview on Monday. “The world does not lack disease 26th nine years ago. Its per capita ing up to the outside, Shen said. nation’s first local law on big data difference, with a recent increase Chinese public health experts said control strategies, but is short of effec­ GDP climbed from last place to Guiyang, the provincial capital administration in 2016, and has of up to 8 C having a great impact the report offered comprehensive tive enforcement,” he said. “Globally, 25th over the same period. — where tech firm Apple stores its unveiled other regulations govern­ on the steel structure. and objective recommendations, as a coordination mechanism for pan­ “Today’s Guizhou has ripped off Chinese user data — has in recent ing data collection, sharing and The panel’s investigation is well as calling for immediate action. demic preparedness and response is the poverty label attached to it for years become home to some world­ security, he said. continuing. Feng Zijian, former deputy direct­ needed and information sharing and “There are diverse sources for a or­general of the Chinese Center for cooperation between health depart­ building’s vibration, such as Disease Control and Prevention, ments, other government agencies, earthquake, transportation and said “a whole­of­government and private sectors and communities people’s indoor activities,” said whole­of­society approach” forms should be stepped up.” Growing grapes pays off for villagers Chen Kai, an expert at the China the basis of China’s disease control Wang Chenguang, a professor at Academy of Building Research. work. The report also recognized Tsinghua University’s Vanke School By ZHANG LI in Guilin, Guangxi “The wind is probably an impor­ that this approach can effectively of Public Health, said a key message [email protected] tant factor too. The causes should curtail the spread of the virus. of the report is that the world is still be concluded through compre­ “By enforcing robust public health in the midst of the pandemic. Wang Deli was busy checking the hensive investigations.” measures, such as wearing masks, “In particular, severe challenges growth of his grapes and pruning Dampers are not installed at tracing and isolating close contacts, remain in the supply and allocation the vines in a plastic shed in Maoz­ SEG Plaza, and experts suggested mass testing, social distancing, China of COVID­19 vaccines and other hushan village, Guilin, Guangxi installing them to improve its achieved decisive outcomes in three medical equipment,” he said. Zhuang autonomous region. resistance to winds and shaking. months,” he added. To resolve the imminent threat, Last year, his 8,000 square meters “Many in China Such assertive containment strate­ he said global solidarity should be of vines earned him 140,000 yuan have installed shock­absorbing gies were absent in large parts of the ramped up. “Politicization of health ($21,700). devices, such as Ping An Finance world, even after the WHO declared issues runs counter to global inter­ “It is hard to imagine how great Centre, the tallest building in COVID­19 to be a public health emer­ ests,” Wang added. life is today,” said Wang, whose fam­ Shenzhen, which has damper sys­ ily used to work hard all year round tems,” Chen said. but only earned 5,000 yuan. SEG Plaza, in the Maozhushan, in Quanzhou coun­ shopping area, was completed in Growth: 60% of Africans see ty, is home to 156 people. It was once 2000. With a total construction the most impoverished place in the area of 170,000 square meters, it county because of limited transport Wang Junrong, Party chief of Maozhushan village in Guilin, Guangxi has 79 floors — 75 above ground China’s influence as positive and a lack of land. Zhuang autonomous region, hosts a conference to discuss village and four below. Wang Junrong, Maozhushan’s affairs. ZHANG WEI / CHINA DAILY It is the 18th tallest building in From page 1 At a summit on Tuesday initiated Party secretary, said villagers used Shenzhen and one of the tallest by France to boost financing for to grow rice and corn, which could steel tube concrete buildings in According to the initiative, the inter­ Africa, Vice­Premier Han Zheng only return a humble income. PATH TO the product, farmers need to grow the world. national community is expected to called for resuming development In 2002, the local government Path to glory the same type of grape and imple­ The building is home to one of beef up support in areas such as fight­ momentum in Africa in the face of launched a trial project to grow GLORY ment the same management. China’s major markets selling ing COVID­19, post­pandemic recon­ the COVID­19 pandemic as well as grapes, given that the village is “Our grapes are popular in the cryptocurrency mining machines, struction, trade and investment, debt promoting win­win cooperation for located in a basin and boasts a suit­ markets of Guangdong and Hunan and the suspension of business relief, food security, poverty reduction its economic recovery. able temperature for cultivating livelihoods of villagers. provinces and Guangxi,” Wang there sparked fears that the and alleviation, coping with climate Foreign Ministry spokesman them. However, most of the villag­ The local government sent seed­ Hairong said. price of the machines could be change, as well as industrialization. Zhao Lijian said on Thursday China ers were reluctant to join the pro­ lings to impoverished families for “This year the wholesale price of affected. “China welcomes more countries has always been a staunch support­ gram because they were worried free, and the finance department grapes is expected to reach 8 yuan a “The price of mining machines and international organizations, er of Africa in “its virus fight, a pro­ about losing money. offered farmers 5,000 yuan interest­ kilogram.” is mostly determined by the value especially Africa’s traditional coop­ active participant for its growth and “The village committee then free loans so that more families The county agriculture depart­ of digital currencies,” said Deng eration partners, to join this initia­ prosperity, and an effective van­ encouraged several members of the could benefit from the industry. ment has sent technical instructors Lipeng, who has been selling tive,” Wang said. guard of its peace and stability”. Communist Party of China to take In 2015, the village set up a grape to show farmers how to use pesti­ them from his 5­square­meter A recent survey conducted in 18 “We would like to weather the the lead to grow 3.33 hectares for growing association to further stan­ cides and prevent plant diseases. shop in the building for four African countries by Afrobarometer, storm and stay in the same boat the trial,” Wang Junrong said. dardize the industry’s development. Grapes are now grown on 21.3 years. a pan­African research organiza­ with our African brothers, join Villagers were surprised to dis­ “We must unite our strength if we hectares of land in Maozhushan, “For example, the price of bit­ tion, showed that up to 60 percent of hands with international partners cover the first batch of fruit tasted want to go far in the grape industry,” and nearly every household has coin fell by 10.4 percent to $38,131 Africans believe China’s economic for cooperation and play a positive sweet and sold for 400,000 yuan. said Wang Hairong, the associa­ been involved in the business. The on Wednesday, and the price of and political influence on the conti­ role in promoting Africa’s peace and Grape growing soon became tion’s chairman. village’s per capita income exceeded mining machines dropped by nent is positive. security,” he added. the pillar industry to improve the In order to control the quality of 30,000 yuan last year. about 14.8 percent.”