Shenzhen is the only mainland city that has land, sea and air checkpoints. Checkpoints in Shenzhen have the largest flow of people and goods in China.
Checkpoints
Shenzhen has 17 checkpoints. Luohu Checkpoint is China's busiest land passenger checkpoint, while Shenzhen Bay Checkpoint is the busiest land cargo checkpoint.
Customs
Shenzhen Customs is under the direct leadership of the General Administration of Customs of China. Shenzhen and Huizhou are both under the jurisdiction of Shenzhen Customs, which is also one of China's busiest customs agencies. It provides around-the-clock customs declarations for enterprises
In 2009, 185 million people and 14.8348 million vehicles crossed the border through Shenzhen checkpoints.
Shipping
By the end of 2009, Shenzhen Port has been home to 168 berths for vessels weighing more than 500 tons, with 67 capable of accommodating vessels above 10,000 tons and 42 for container ships.
Shenzhen ports now have a coastline of 29.8 kilometers with 10 commercial port areas, including Shekou and Yantian, and one repair base.
More than 200 international routes go through Shenzhen, covering major ports in the world's 12 largest navigation zones. In 2009, Shenzhen Port handled 193.6496 million tons of cargo while the container throughput reached 18.2502 million TEUs, ranking fourth in the world in terms of container throughput for the seventh consecutive year.
Civil Aviation
Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport is a first-class civil airport and has become one of the country's four busiest airports. It operates 118 domestic air routes and 37 international destinations (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan). The number of passengers passing through the airport totaled 24.4864 million in 2009. It handled 605,400 tons of cargo last year.
Railway Network
Shenzhen has an extensive railway network. Two arterial railways cutting across the Chinese continent, the Beijing-Guangzhou railway and the Beijing-Kowloon railway, meet in Shenzhen. A total of 119 pairs of trains commute between Shenzhen and Guangzhou, of which 100 pairs are express passenger trains and another 19 are long-distance trains via the two cities. The Harmony Express runs at 10-minute intervals between Shenzhen and Guangzhou. In terms of long-distance transportation, Shenzhen has regular train services to Beijing, Zhengzhou, Hefei, Jiujiang, Wuhan, Changsha, Yueyang, Zhaoqing, Shaoguan, Maoming, Heyuan, Meizhou, Shantou and Hong Kong.
The Shenzhen North Railway Station in Longhua Subdistrict, now under construction, is expected to become a regional rail transport hub in southern China.
Shenzhen Metro
Phase I of the Shenzhen Metro was finished and opened on Dec. 28, 2004. It transported 138 million people in 2009, or 378,100 each day.
According to official plans, the city will build a Metro railway network of 238.7 kilometers by 2010. It will enable 50 percent of Shenzhen residents to take advantage of the Metro to travel around the city. The total line transfers required within the network to reach any city destination will not exceed three.
Road Network
Roads and expressways in Shenzhen form a network that connects the rest of the Pearl River Delta region.
By the end of 2009, Shenzhen had opened long-distance buses to all major counties and cities in Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao and more than 20 provinces and regions in China. Shenzhen will play a bigger role as a road transport hub in the Pan-Pearl River Delta area with the integration of Delta cities and the expansion of the expressway network.
Public Transportation
Learning from Singapore and Hong Kong, Shenzhen took the lead in developing a bus rapid transit (BRT) system. By the end of 2009, the city had a total of 25,000 public buses on 578 routes, covering a total length of 13,000 kilometers. More than 2.1 billion people used public transport in 2009.
Source: 大运官网 Editor: 郑旭莹(实习生)