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Flu index raisedTHE city’s fl u index was raised to Grade I between Wednesday and July 25, indi-cating a high probability of an outbreak of infl uenza cases, sources from the city’s public health commission said.

Monitoring data taken of clinical visitors to hospitals in the past two weeks showed fi ve of every 100 patients were suffering from the fl u.

A fl u infection could worsen the health condi-tion of patients with chronic diseases, such as asthma and heart disease, and put patients with severe diseases at a risk of complications. Doctors warned that toddlers under 2, elderly people and those groups with low immunity and serious diseases to take extra precautions against the fl u. In addition, pregnant women are at a high risk of suffering from complications caused by the fl u. Women who plan to have a baby are advised to receive inocula-tions three months before pregnancy.Ex-offi cial jailedWANG JUEMING, a former offi ce director with Qianhai Infrastructure Construction Commanding Headquarters, was sentenced to 11 years in jail for abusing his power and taking 23 million yuan (US$3.4 million) in bribes to help others acquire urban contracts.

Wang also received three cars worth a total of 1.23 mil-lion yuan, 500,000 yuan to decorate his home and fuel cards and shopping cards totaling 150,000 yuan, the court verdict said.

Wang was probed in May last year by the Shenzhen Municipal Disciplinary Inspec-tion Commission of the CPC.Road restorationTHE section of Enshang Road in Yantian District that collapsed due to the heavy rain July 15 will be restored in two weeks, according to the city’s transport commis-sion. Vehicles taking that road to Yantian are advised to choose other exits for the Shenzhen-Yantian No. 2 Pas-sage or to use Luosha Road to Shenyan Road via the Wutong Mt. Tunnel.Fugitive caughtA MAN who was on the run and wanted by police has been caught by traffi c police in Yan-tian for illegally parking.

An offi cer with the Meisha Unit of the Yantian Police Brigade found a car illegally parked in a motorist lane July 15. A man who claimed to be the driver arrived soon after and attempted to drive away. However, the offi cer discovered that the man was a fugitive after checking his ID. The man has been handed over to the local police station for investigation.

SHENZHEN will initiate 60 hos-pital projects, including the con-struction of 25 new hospitals and the expansion or relocation of 32 hospitals for reconstruction, during the 13th Five-Year Plan between 2016 and 2020, Chi-nese-language media reported Thursday, citing sources from the city’s public health com-mission.

Among the 25 new hospitals, 14 are required to be completed and opened before the end of

2020. The new hospitals will include the No. 7 Affi liated Hos-pital to Sun Yat-sen University in Guangming New Area, Sami International Medical Center and Jianning Hospital in Ping-shan District, Affi liated Hospital to Shenzhen University in Nan-shan District, Pinghu Hospital and Jihua Hospital in Longgang District, Xinhua Hospital in Longhua District and Dapeng Hospital. The city also plans to build children’s hospitals in both

Longhua and Longgang districts and stomatological hospitals in both Luohu and Pingshan dis-tricts.

The Shenzhen Cancer Hos-pital of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Shenzhen People’s Hospital, the Univer-sity of Hong Kong Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen No. 2 Peo-ple’s Hospital, Shenzhen No. 3 People’s Hospital, Shenzhen Mother and Children Healthcare Hospital, Shenzhen Traditional

Chinese Medicine Hospital and Shenzhen Eye Hospital will be expanded.

Besides public investment, the city has also planned three hospi-tals — comprehensive hospitals in Minzhi and Banxugang and a children’s hospital in Bao’an CBD — with private investments.

The hospital projects will offer a total of 60,000 more hospital beds, with 26,000 hospital beds available before the end of 2020. (Han Ximin)

A 196-KILOGRAM Hong Kong man underwent a gastrectomy at Shenzhen People’s Hospital as his obesity had endangered his health, the Shenzhen Special Zone Daily reported Thursday.

The 36-year-old patient, sur-named Xu, gained 50 kilograms over the past two years. Accord-ing to him, his heavy breathing always makes his social life awk-ward and he sometimes suffers from sleep apnea.

Xu was diagnosed with severe obesity, respiratory problem, fatty liver and abnormal blood glucose, meaning that his life is in serious danger if he doesn’t lose weight. Following his friends’ advice, Xu decided to undergo a gastrectomy to

remove part of his stomach.Xu is the heaviest surgical

patient that Shenzhen People’s Hospital has ever received, and his weight and size created new challenges for the medical staff. Doctors from several depart-ments worked closely together to ensure the operation went smoothly, while the hospital also customized an operating table and equipment for Xu.

The operation was performed successfully and Xu’s stomach was reduced to one-third of its originally size. The doctors sug-gested that he eat soft food for the fi rst three months to allow his stomach to recover. After three months, a proper plan of eating less food and doing more

A TRAVELER was detained by Huanggang Customs offi cers at Futian Checkpoint after he was caught carrying more than 9.1 kilograms of ivory and ivory products to cross the border from Hong Kong to Shenzhen on Tuesday, according to sznews.com.

The traveler, who hasn’t been identifi ed, caught the attention of the customs offi cers as he was carrying a large backpack. When the customs offi cers checked his backpack, over 9.1 kilograms of ivory products covered in black tape were found.

The seized ivory products included four ivory balls as big as an adult’s fi st and seven ivory segments. One of the ivory segments was nicely engraved, while the other segments could be spliced into two 1-meter-long pieces, according to the Daily report.

According to the traveler, he was told by some strangers that he could get 300 yuan (US$44.12) as a reward if he took the back-pack across the border. He said he had no idea what was in the bag and he never thought that he was doing something illegal.

The investigation of the case continues.

The spokesperson of Huang-gang Customs said that the number of passengers illegally bringing ivory across the border has been reduced by 70 to 80 percent over the past year, as most passengers are well aware of the relevant regulations.

Passengers who are used by others to illegally carry endan-gered species and related prod-ucts across the border will also be held legally responsible, accord-ing to the spokesperson.

(Zhang Yang, Dong Haowu)

City to initiate 60 hospital projects

Man caught carrying ivory items at border

Obese man has 2/3 of stomach removed

MOTORISTS in the Guiwan area will be able to drive to the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Riverside Expressway directly from the underground parking garages of their housing estates when an urban project in Qianhai is completed in 2020.

The development of Qianhai’s Area V, the single largest urban project ever, will be completed by 2020, the project contrac-tors, China Railway and China Railway Guangzhou Engineer-ing Bureau, said.

The project involves 150 individual subprojects, such as

infrastructure, underground passages, rail links, overpasses, parks and pipelines.

Area V of Qianhai covers 4.9 square kilometers and the proj-ects are estimated to cost 2.35 bil-lion yuan (US$346 million). The area is oriented by the coastal belt in the west, Yueliangwan Boule-vard and the Guiwan River bank in the south and Shuangjie River Corridor in the north.

The Phase I project in the Guiwan area includes 48 urban projects covering 22.37 square kilometers, 42 passages for pedestrians, a 1.5-kilometer

underground vehicle lane, three cooling stations, fi ve footbridges, 10 community parks and fi ve elevated walking passages.

As most of the urban projects are being developed under-ground, the development will allow more space for developing above ground public transport and a slow traffi c system.

Since October 2016, 10 proj-ects have been initiated and once all of the projects are completed, vehicles will be able to go directly from the underground parking areas to the urban trunk roads.

(Han Ximin)

Qianhai’s largest underground project

exercise will be needed to help him lose some weight and adapt to his smaller stomach.

(Zhang Yang, Dong Haowu)

The Hong Kong man with two doctors at Shenzhen People’s Hospital.

SD-Agencies

Some of the seized ivory products. SD-Agencies

Animation lovers cosplay at the Seventh Shenzhen Animation Festival at Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center on Thursday. The fi ve-day event, which opened Thursday, features a VR interaction section, where visitors can have a hand-on experience with the technology. Sun Yuchen

Animation festival kicks off