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Topic Reading-Vol.2713-9/15/2019

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2019/09/15 Topic Reading-Vol.2713-9/15/2019

Dear MEL Topic Readers,

Over 30,000 kids in Shenzhen cross border to school

Shenzhen is a major city in Guangdong Province, China. It forms part of the Pearl River Delta megalopolis with Zhuhai, Hong Kong, and Macao. As a major gateway city to Hong Kong and the epicenter of foreign investment, Shenzhen became one of the world’s fastest-growing cities in the 1990s and the 2000s. It is also home for many high-tech companies, such as Huawei, Tencent, and BYD, and is dubbed as China’s Silicon Valley. Shenzhen is indeed closely connected to Hong Kong.

Since there are so many families living in Shenzhen from Hong Kong, over 30,000 students commute to their schools in Hong Kong daily from Shenzhen. Every morning, they come to Shenzhen Bay Port which connects the two megacities via the five-kilometer-long Shenzhen Bay Bridge. Because Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China (SAR), they are also required to go through checkpoints to have their IDs inspected, which could take hours if each student is checked manually. But Shenzhen is a tech hub and has no shortage of technologies and solutions to get the things done efficiently. Now, those students go through a special passage that is equipped with a digital bar code system to ease the traffic pressure.

Imagine students who have gone through a cross-border commute every school day for a decade. How open-minded or flexible they could be as to where to work or how to commute!

Enjoy learning about this cross-border commute by Hong Kong’s students.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201909/06/WS5d720061a310cf3e3556a26e_1.html

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