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Climate and Weather
Shenzhen belongs to subtropical climate. With long summer, short winter, and rich rainfalls, it is suitable for tours all year round. Rain season is mainly from May to September. The average precipitation is 1,948.6mm. The average temperature is 22.4 degrees centigrade with the highest point of 36.6 degrees centigrade and the lowest point of 1.4 degrees centigrade. The duration of sunshine is 2,120 hours in a year. Kept back by the hills, the typhoon in summer and autumn will come to Shenzhen no more than once a year.
Local Festivals and Folk Custom
Shenzhen Grand Theater Art Festival Shenzhen Grand Theater is one of the eight famous cultural facilities with almost a hundred million Renminbi Yuan invested by Shenzhen City Government in 1984. It is a multifunctional, modern, and comprehensive cultural site combining art appreciation, song and dance shows, cultural tour and leisure.
In 1992, Shenzhen Grand Theater held Shenzhen Grand Theater Art Festival all by itself. The grand festival not only improved the international art exchanges, but also widened the vision of the citizens. The most successful festivals are the Third Art Festival with Concert of the Ninth Symphony of Beet haven and the Sixth Festival with the theme of celebrating Hong Kong's return to China. The theater is a historic mark to help to promote Shenzhen City to a modern international metropolis.
Longgang "Town of Dragon Dance" Art Festival
Longgang is famous for dragon and is known as Dragon Town at home and abroad. The Hakkas here take dragon as the mascot and form a custom to play dragon dance, lion dance and Qilin dance on occasions of holidays and festivals.
With a 300-year history and strong local characteristic, dragon dance is one of the main folk customs, thus, Dragon Culture comes into being. There are a lot of gardens, squares, and sculptures with the theme of dragon. With the total investment of RMB 100 million, a dragon theme park is built in Longgang, which is the only one of its kind in China. Dragon dance troupes often play in foreign countries and regions, such as United States, Canada, and Hong Kong. Dragon dance has won reward of dragon dance contest. There are 55 troupes of dragon, lion, and Qilin dances. About 960 people often take part in the dances for about 130 days in a year. There are about 100 times of dragon dance shows each year
Other Odds and EndsPhone Dialing Code
Region Code 0755
Zip Code 518100
Travel Hot Line, 86-755-82003220 / 83794903
Consumer Association, 12315
Bus Ticket Agency, 86-0755-82321670
Flight Ticket Agency, 86-0755-3325460 / 3345000
Train Ticket Agency, 86-0755-2327685 / 2325043
Police 110
Fire 119
Ambulance 120
Traffic Accident 122
Directory Assistance 114
Weather 121
Money
Foreign exchange is offered in any one of the exchange counters of Bank of China in Shenzhen. And you would exchange money in a lots of the exchange counters at hotel.
Universities
Shenzhen University
Shenzhen University is a full-time comprehensive university accredited by the State Council of the People's Republic of China. The university, which is funded by Shenzhen local government, undertook its first enrollment in 1983 - the same year in which it was established at what Deng Xiaoping called "Shenzhen Speed". This is the information for your reference (http://www.szu.edu.cn/en/).
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