Shenzhen

Residents of Chinese manufacturing hub Shenzhen say they’ve had enough of repeated COVID-19 lockdowns. More and more are standing up to protest. Authorities suspended a subway route on Monday after new virus cases emerged in the city. Harsh restrictions soon followed. Shenzhen’s pandemic control office has labeled some areas of the city as medium or […]

Residents of Shenzhen, China, have also been spotted breaking through barriers and fences to flee quarantined areas.

SHENZHEN, China—Authorities in China’s southern city of Shenzhen shut the world’s largest electronics market of Huaqiangbei and suspended service at 24 subway stations on Monday in a bid to curb an outbreak of COVID-19. Three key buildings in the sprawling area, comprised of thousands of stalls selling microchips, telephone parts, and other components to manufacturers, […]

More new COVID-19 cases are popping up in southern China, and millions are headed back under lockdown. Some workers are even confined to a closed factory so their company can continue production.

A single virus case has triggered mass virus testing and a partial lockdown in China’s Shenzhen city. Authorities there mandated home isolation orders for several local communities.

In China’s 4th largest city Shenzhen, a man was found dead at his home during the lockdown. Nobody found out about his death until his neighbor smelled something was wrong. Officials are refusing to explain how he died. NTD talked to one of his neighbors to find out more.

The Southern Chinese city of Shenzhen is adding a new tool to its pandemic control arsenal. Printed on a tiny piece of paper—it’s a permit that allows citizens to enter and exit their communities. Called “Resident Passes,” it’s made up of three pieces, marked numbers 1 to 3—meaning there are 3 pieces per household. Besides […]

If you’re buying something online that was made in China—It’s likely it was produced in Shenzhen— China’s fifth-most populous city. But now, Shenzhen is under lockdown. Authorities push the stay-at-home order Sunday due to a virus surge.

Two major Chinese cities—northeastern industrial hub Changchun and southern economic hub Shenzhen—are under lockdown, with more than 26 million residents forbidden from leaving their homes.

Foxconn has halted operations in the Chinese business center of Shenzhen after authorities announced a partial lockdown due to a rise in COVID-19 cases across the country, fueled by the highly transmissible Omicron variant. In a March 13 statement, a spokesperson for the Taiwan-based Foxconn, also known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., said it was suspending production […]

SHENZHEN, China—China’s major southern cities Guangzhou and Shenzhen have warned of severe water shortages lasting into next spring as the East River, a tributary of Guangdong’s Pearl River, continues to be hit by its most severe drought in decades. Officials in both cities are asking citizens to reduce water consumption, with rainfall between January to […]

A city in southern China is struggling on multiple fronts. The pandemic is still causing problems for residents in Shenzhen, while heavy rain and flood concerns prompted authorities to announce a state of emergency on Tuesday.

Direct flights from the southern city of Shenzhen to Beijing have been suspended until at least July 1, booking apps showed.

People ran from a skyscraper in China’s Shenzhen on Tuesday (May 18), as the building began to shake.

Chinese authorities formally announced charges against Hong Kong detainees more than three months after they were first arrested while reportedly fleeing to Taiwan for political asylum. Two were charged with organizing illegal border crossings while eight others were accused of taking part in a border crossing operation, according to a Dec. 16 statement from the […]

Hong Kong police on Sept. 2 re-arrested 27 protesters who gathered near Polytechnic University last year in support of students trapped inside as police tried to storm the campus. The 27 protesters, aged between 16 and 37, include 15 students, one teacher, and office workers. Two are underage, according to police. They all face the […]

China’s Guangzhou city announced on April 24 that it found 185 CCP virus infections when it recently conducted mass testing of “key groups.” However, netizens realized that the data conflicted with information the Guangdong government previously published. And two days earlier, in the nearby city of Shenzhen, authorities announced that six teachers and 21 students […]