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CONTACT US AT: 8351-9443, [email protected] Fri/Sat/Sun March 23~25, 2018 shenzhen ❘ 03 At a Glance Fund income THE income of the Shenzhen social insurance fund in 2017 reached 151.8 billion yuan (US$24 billion) and total expenditure was 54.1 bil- lion yuan, sources from the Shenzhen Social Insurance and Fund Administration said. A total of 2.31 million people have tied their insur- ance cards to online payment platforms. Plate modification A TRUCK driver was caught Monday by Guangming police for covering up the letter S on his license plates, which rep- resents Dongguan in vehicle registration, with the letter B, representing Shenzhen, to evade punishment for road violations. Shenzhen has restricted nonlocal vehicles from run- ning on roads during rush hours on workdays. Rehearsal for grand concert Members of an orchestra during a rehearsal at the Shenzhen Concert Hall before the opening ceremony of the 2018 Belt & Road Shenzhen International Music Festival, which will officially begin with a grand opening concert Friday night. Renowned musicians and orchestras from home and abroad will perform a total of 17 high-end concerts until the end of April. Sun Yuchen Zhang Qian [email protected] LED by Aaron Ciechanover, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004, an institute of precision and regenerative medicine was inaugurated at Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHKSZ) on Thursday morning. Under the witness of the deputy mayor of Shenzhen, Gao Zimin, other government officials and the university’s directors, it was announced at Wuzhou Guest House on Thursday that CUHKSZ’s third lab led by a Nobel laure- ate had been officially set up. The Ciecha- nover Institute of Precision and Regenerative Medicine will conduct researches in two main fields: the precision treatment of cancer and infectious diseases as well as regenerative medicine for diseases including Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes and some other types of diseases, the professor said. “We will also be looking at integrating multiple disciplines at the university, such as medical engineering, chemistry, big data, computer science and others to cultivate researchers with diverse backgrounds,” Ciechanover said during an interview after the inauguration. Ciechanover is an Israeli biolo- gist who won the Nobel Prize for characterizing the method that cells use to degrade and recycle proteins using ubiquitin. He joined the Shenzhen university as a Distinguished Professor last October. Professor Xu Yangsheng, president of CUHKSZ, said that the Distinguished Professor brought top-notch researchers along with him to the university. Setting up the institute could better help the research teams bring their research results to everyday teaching in order to cultivate better students, said the president. Xu also disclosed at the inau- guration ceremony Thursday that the university will add a new biomedical engineering major this year. Besides the newly inaugurated institute, the university has set up two other labs named after Noble Prize winners, namely the Arieh Warshel Institute of Computational Biology and an institute for new drug R&D led by Brian Kobilka. The first two labs are part of the city’s 10 major Nobel laureate labs under Shenzhen’s strategy to become a global innovation hub. Nobel laureate sets up medical institute Aaron Ciechanover NINE Shenzhen companies made it onto the list of the “Top 100 Unicorn Companies in China” recently released by iheima.com, the Shekou News reported Thursday. A unicorn is a startup company with a history of no longer than 10 years and a valuation over US$1 billion. Unicorn companies are often sought-after among inves- tors as these companies develop rapidly with unique advantages. Among the nine Shenzhen companies selected for this edi- tion of the “Top 100 Unicorn Companies in China,” six are based in Nanshan District, including DJI, JmGO, Trans- sion, Mindray, iCarbonX and UBTECH. DJI, Transsion, Mindray and UBTECH are well-known com- panies in Shenzhen, but many residents are not familiar with JmGO and iCarbonX. Founded in 2011, JmGO spe- cializes in producing intelligent home projectors. It raised 60 million yuan (US$9.49 million) in its Series A round of funding in early 2016 and it received its Series D round of funding 18 months later. Apart from home projectors, the company has also developed and produced laser TVs and 3-D projection computers. The company’s portable 3-D projectors, combining the func- tions of a smartphone, TV, 3-D cinema, KTV and PC all in one, can be widely used for advertis- ing, education and games in offices and homes, according to the report. iCarbonX was founded by Wang Jun, co-founder and former CEO of BGI, in 2015 with the mission of creating a future in which people can drive their own health and defeat disease using advanced data and artificial intelligence (AI). In 2016, iCarbonX acquired Imagu Vision Technologies and established the iCarbonX-Israel R&D center. The company raised nearly 1 billion yuan in its Series A round of funding led by Tencent in April 2016. Seven companies joined iCar- bonX’s Digital Life Alliance in January last year. The alliance’s aim is to merge genetic, biological and patient-generated data with sequencing and AI technology to instantly detect meaningful signals about health, disease and aging, and deliver a personalized guide for people to live a healthy life. One of the seven companies is PatientsLikeMe, the world’s largest personalized health network. It provides a direct-to- consumer platform to integrate, analyze and present personalized health information. More than 500,000 people have already used patientslikeme.com to digi- tize and share their heath data, according to the report. (Zhang Yang) 9 SZ fi rms selected as top 100 unicorns in China QIANHAI kicked off construction on seven projects involving 26.4 billion yuan (US$4.18 billion) in investments Wednesday. The projects include a road bridge project linking Yueliang- wan Flyover and Guimiao Road, construction of the headquarters of Xinyi Glass, Huaqiang Group’s Qianhai Headquarters, a startup project of CIMC, a commercial apartment project and a pier renovation project at Mawan Port. Huaqiang Group’s Qianhai Headquarters covers 6,573 square meters and is funded by Huaqiang Group, one of China’s top 50 electronic information enterprises. The project costs 3.6 billion yuan and will be an enterprise cluster incorporating finance, supply chain, science and technology, new energy and trade. The bridge project linking Yueliangwan Flyover and Gui- miao Road is a major project linking Qianhai with the rest of the city. As it involves the reloca- tion of LNP, petroleum pipelines, protective engineering of Line 11 and Pingnan Railway, the cost is estimated at 800 million yuan. The project is expected to be finished in March 2019 and will enable the trip to Futian CBD by car to be made within 30 minutes. The renovation of four decade- old piers at Mawan Port will increase cargo throughput to 940,000 TEUs. (Han Ximin) Qianhai kicks off bridge, headquarters projects THE number of app-based shared bikes in Shenzhen stands at 750,000, within the city’s capacity of existing bicycle lanes and parking spaces, a research report by the Shenzhen transport commission showed. But as the bikes are unevenly distributed and the poor main- tenance lags behind operation, some areas of the city have seen an overcapacity of bikes, and some broken and underused bikes, around 50,000 in total, are wasting public resources. The report showed that Luohu and Bao’an districts have been overcrowded with shared bikes. The input of bicycles was 2.5 times more than the area’s capacity. The space resources in Longhua, Pingshan, Yan- tian districts, and Dapeng and Guangming new areas are underused. The report suggested that bike operators control the amount of bikes in Luohu and Bao’an districts, reduce supplies near Metro stations in Luohu, Futian, Nanshan, Longgang and Bao’an districts and distribute the excess bikes to some less crowded areas. Bluegogo, Xiaoming Bike and Coolqi, which have exited the Shenzhen market due to bankruptcy, left around 50,000 unclaimed zombie bikes, some of which are scattered throughout urban villages, making them hard to collect and relocate. For the healthy development of the industry, the city has completed a draft on the man- agement of shared bikes and compiled an evaluation system on the operations and service of shared bike operators. Based on the evaluation system, the city will work out a market access and exit mechanism to eliminate nonperforming operators. In addition, the commission will promote the construction of slow traffic facilities and start building the city’s bicycle lane system. By the end of 2017, the bicycle lanes in the city ran 1,156 kilo- meters and 8,499 bike parking locations had been set up. (Han Ximin) Shared bikes oversupplied, unevenly distributed
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CONTACT US AT: 8351-9443, [email protected]
Fri/Sat/Sun March 23~25, 2018 shenzhen x 03
At a Glance
Fund incomeTHE income of the Shenzhen social insurance fund in 2017 reached 151.8 billion yuan (US$24 billion) and total expenditure was 54.1 bil-lion yuan, sources from the Shenzhen Social Insurance and Fund Administration said.
A total of 2.31 million people have tied their insur-ance cards to online payment platforms.Plate modifi cationA TRUCK driver was caught Monday by Guangming police for covering up the letter S on his license plates, which rep-resents Dongguan in vehicle registration, with the letter B, representing Shenzhen, to evade punishment for road violations.
Shenzhen has restricted nonlocal vehicles from run-ning on roads during rush hours on workdays.
Rehearsal for grand concertMembers of an orchestra during a rehearsal at the Shenzhen Concert Hall before the opening ceremony of the 2018 Belt & Road Shenzhen International Music Festival, which will offi cially begin with a grand opening concert Friday night. Renowned musicians and orchestras from home and abroad will perform a total of 17 high-end concerts until the end of April. Sun Yuchen
Zhang [email protected]
LED by Aaron Ciechanover, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004, an institute of precision and regenerative medicine was inaugurated at Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHKSZ) on Thursday morning.
Under the witness of the deputy mayor of Shenzhen, Gao Zimin, other government offi cials and the university’s directors, it was announced at Wuzhou Guest
House on Thursday that C U H K S Z ’ s third lab led by a Nobel laure-ate had been offi cially set up.
The Ciecha-nover Institute of Precision
and Regenerative Medicine will conduct researches in two main fi elds: the precision treatment of cancer and infectious diseases as well as regenerative medicine for diseases including Parkinson’s
disease, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes and some other types of diseases, the professor said.
“We will also be looking at integrating multiple disciplines at the university, such as medical engineering, chemistry, big data, computer science and others to cultivate researchers with diverse backgrounds,” Ciechanover said during an interview after the inauguration.
Ciechanover is an Israeli biolo-gist who won the Nobel Prize for characterizing the method that cells use to degrade and recycle
proteins using ubiquitin. He joined the Shenzhen university as a Distinguished Professor last October.
Professor Xu Yangsheng, president of CUHKSZ, said that the Distinguished Professor brought top-notch researchers along with him to the university. Setting up the institute could better help the research teams bring their research results to everyday teaching in order to cultivate better students, said the president.
Xu also disclosed at the inau-
guration ceremony Thursday that the university will add a new biomedical engineering major this year.
Besides the newly inaugurated institute, the university has set up two other labs named after Noble Prize winners, namely the Arieh Warshel Institute of Computational Biology and an institute for new drug R&D led by Brian Kobilka.
The fi rst two labs are part of the city’s 10 major Nobel laureate labs under Shenzhen’s strategy to become a global innovation hub.
Nobel laureate sets up medical institute
Aaron Ciechanover
NINE Shenzhen companies made it onto the list of the “Top 100 Unicorn Companies in China” recently released by iheima.com, the Shekou News reported Thursday.
A unicorn is a startup company with a history of no longer than 10 years and a valuation over US$1 billion. Unicorn companies are often sought-after among inves-tors as these companies develop rapidly with unique advantages.
Among the nine Shenzhen companies selected for this edi-tion of the “Top 100 Unicorn Companies in China,” six are based in Nanshan District, including DJI, JmGO, Trans-sion, Mindray, iCarbonX and UBTECH.
DJI, Transsion, Mindray and UBTECH are well-known com-panies in Shenzhen, but many residents are not familiar with JmGO and iCarbonX.
Founded in 2011, JmGO spe-cializes in producing intelligent home projectors. It raised 60 million yuan (US$9.49 million) in its Series A round of funding in early 2016 and it received its Series D round of funding 18 months later. Apart from home projectors, the company has also developed and produced laser TVs and 3-D projection computers.
The company’s portable 3-D projectors, combining the func-tions of a smartphone, TV, 3-D cinema, KTV and PC all in one,
can be widely used for advertis-ing, education and games in offi ces and homes, according to the report.
iCarbonX was founded by Wang Jun, co-founder and former CEO of BGI, in 2015 with the mission of creating a future in which people can drive their own health and defeat disease using advanced data and artifi cial intelligence (AI).
In 2016, iCarbonX acquired Imagu Vision Technologies and established the iCarbonX-Israel R&D center. The company raised nearly 1 billion yuan in its Series A round of funding led by Tencent in April 2016.
Seven companies joined iCar-bonX’s Digital Life Alliance in
January last year. The alliance’s aim is to merge genetic, biological and patient-generated data with sequencing and AI technology to instantly detect meaningful signals about health, disease and aging, and deliver a personalized guide for people to live a healthy life.
One of the seven companies is PatientsLikeMe, the world’s largest personalized health network. It provides a direct-to-consumer platform to integrate, analyze and present personalized health information. More than 500,000 people have already used patientslikeme.com to digi-tize and share their heath data, according to the report.
(Zhang Yang)
9 SZ fi rms selected as top 100 unicorns in China
QIANHAI kicked off construction on seven projects involving 26.4 billion yuan (US$4.18 billion) in investments Wednesday.
The projects include a road bridge project linking Yueliang-wan Flyover and Guimiao Road, construction of the headquarters of Xinyi Glass, Huaqiang Group’s Qianhai Headquarters, a startup project of CIMC, a commercial
apartment project and a pier renovation project at Mawan Port.
Huaqiang Group’s Qianhai Headquarters covers 6,573 square meters and is funded by Huaqiang Group, one of China’s top 50 electronic information enterprises. The project costs 3.6 billion yuan and will be an enterprise cluster incorporating
fi nance, supply chain, science and technology, new energy and trade.
The bridge project linking Yueliangwan Flyover and Gui-miao Road is a major project linking Qianhai with the rest of the city. As it involves the reloca-tion of LNP, petroleum pipelines, protective engineering of Line 11 and Pingnan Railway, the cost is
estimated at 800 million yuan. The project is expected to be fi nished in March 2019 and will enable the trip to Futian CBD by car to be made within 30 minutes.
The renovation of four decade-old piers at Mawan Port will increase cargo throughput to 940,000 TEUs.
(Han Ximin)
Qianhai kicks off bridge, headquarters projects
THE number of app-based shared bikes in Shenzhen stands at 750,000, within the city’s capacity of existing bicycle lanes and parking spaces, a research report by the Shenzhen transport commission showed.
But as the bikes are unevenly distributed and the poor main-tenance lags behind operation, some areas of the city have seen an overcapacity of bikes, and some broken and underused bikes, around 50,000 in total, are wasting public resources.
The report showed that Luohu and Bao’an districts have been overcrowded with shared bikes. The input of bicycles was 2.5 times more than the area’s capacity. The space resources in Longhua, Pingshan, Yan-tian districts, and Dapeng and Guangming new areas are underused.
The report suggested that bike operators control the amount of bikes in Luohu and Bao’an districts, reduce supplies near Metro stations in Luohu, Futian, Nanshan, Longgang and Bao’an districts and distribute the excess bikes to some less crowded areas.
Bluegogo, Xiaoming Bike and Coolqi, which have exited the Shenzhen market due to bankruptcy, left around 50,000 unclaimed zombie bikes, some of which are scattered throughout urban villages, making them hard to collect and relocate.
For the healthy development of the industry, the city has completed a draft on the man-agement of shared bikes and compiled an evaluation system on the operations and service of shared bike operators. Based on the evaluation system, the city will work out a market access and exit mechanism to eliminate nonperforming operators.
In addition, the commission will promote the construction of slow traffi c facilities and start building the city’s bicycle lane system.
By the end of 2017, the bicycle lanes in the city ran 1,156 kilo-meters and 8,499 bike parking locations had been set up.
(Han Ximin)
Shared bikes oversupplied, unevenlydistributed
