SHENZHEN CIVIC LIFE   Fashion Shenzhen Emerging Designers - Presentation - Spring 2016 New York Fashion Week A model poses at the Fashion Shenzhen Emerging Designers presentation Spring 2016 New York Fashion Week：The Shows at Crowne Plaza Times Square on September 13, 2015 in New York City.  Source：Gettyimages（read more）  Amcham South China brings Paramount Parks to Guangzhou, Shenzhen to build Hollywood China Dream City GUANGZHOU, China - The Hollywood China Investment Group, which has the exclusive right to Paramount Parks in China, brought by the American Chamber of Commerce in South China（AmCham South China）arrived in Guangzhou last night and kicked off their three-day visit in Guangdong Province aiming at inspecting sites for its Hollywood China Dream City and Paramount Parks project. The delegation met with leaders from Guangzhou Municipal Commission of Commerce this morning and will visit some possible sites for inspection. The delegation is led by Dr. Demos Vardiabasis, the Founding Chairman of California Entertainment & Tourist Committee, and the Chairman of Board of Hollywood China Investment Group. Dr. Demos Vardiabasis has been working to bridging communication and cooperation on cultural creativity industry between U.S. and China for years. Cooperating with Paramount Pictures, Paramount Parks, MESA, HITS, and other leading companies in Hollywood advance visual technologies, the Hollywood China Investment Group led by Dr. Demos Vardiabasis initiated the Hollywood China Dream City and Paramount Parks project, total investment of which is expected to reach 10 billion USD in 3 phases. Source：Traveldailynews（read more） Better late than never – Shenzhen launches new maternity insurance policy The Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security（“SMBHRSS”）recently issued the “Implementation Measures of the ‘Rules of Guangdong Province on Maternity Insurance for Employees’”（Hereinafter as the “Implementation Measures”）, which includes a series of operation specifications in accordance with the “Rules of Guangdong Province on Maternity Insurance for Employees”（Hereinafter as the “Rules”）, as well as in combination with the local practice. Below is the summary of several key points of the “Implementation Measures” to present the updates of legal practice on maternity insurance in Shenzhen.   Source：Chinalawinsight （read more）

SHENZHEN BUSINESS NEWS   Entrepreneurship sets high standard for Shenzhen's future Ken Hu, global rotating chief executive of Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, one of the world's major telecom equipment providers, attributed the company's growing presence in the global market to its consistent investment in research and development over the years.  Source：Ecns.cn（read more） Robot revolution transforms China's factories as part of Beijing's economic overhaul SHENZHEN, China –  In China's factories, the robots are rising. For decades, manufacturers employed waves of young migrant workers from China's countryside to work at countless factories in coastal provinces, churning out cheap toys, clothing and electronics that helped power the country's economic ascent. Now, factories are rapidly replacing those workers with automation, a pivot that's encouraged by rising wages and new official directives aimed at helping the country move away from low-cost manufacturing as the supply of young, pliant workers shrinks. Source：Fox  Business（read more） Edinburgh-Shenzhen incubator project aims to support creative business EDINBURGH, Sept. 15（Xinhua）— Creativity and innovation has brought China's vibrant southern city of Shenzhen and Scotland's capital city closer through a joint incubator project of creative exchange launched here on Tuesday evening. Speaking at the opening ceremony of Edinburgh-Shenzhen Creative Exchange, Donald Wilson, Lord Provost of the City of Edinburgh, said："This is a combination of a number of years of collaboration between the City of Edinburgh Council and the Shenzhen municipal government, supported by the Scottish government." Source：Global Post （read more） Gene-edited 'micropigs' to be sold as pets at Chinese institute Cutting-edge gene-editing techniques have produced an unexpected byproduct — tiny pigs that a leading Chinese genomics institute will soon sell as pets. BGI in Shenzhen, the genomics institute that is famous for a series of high-profile breakthroughs in genomic sequencing, originally created the micropigs as models for human disease, by applying a gene-editing technique to a small breed of pig known as Bama. On 23 September, at the Shenzhen International Biotech Leaders Summit in China, BGI revealed that it would start selling the pigs as pets. The animals weigh about 15 kilograms when mature, or about the same as a medium-sized dog.   Source：Nature （read more）