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.
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