Phone booths, newsstands make way for Games

SHENZHEN - Almost 30 percent of Shenzhen's telephone booths and 861 newsstands have been removed in the city in the weeks leading up to the 26th World University Games.

The games, also known as the Universiade, will bring university athletes from around the world to compete in the city starting on Aug 12.

"Telephone booths, newspaper stands and breakfast vendors are prohibited from being in 10 of the city's arterial streets or roads that are next to venues that are important for the Universiade," said Liu Hanchu, deputy director of the Shenzhen Urban Management Bureau, on Monday.