Infrastructure


The Guangzhou-Kowloon, and Guangzhou-Meizhou- Shantou Railways run through the central part of the Shenzhen SEZ. The section from Beijing to Shenzhen of the Beijing Kowloon Railway is open to traffic. Shenzhen Northern Rail Freight Station boasts 52 freight rails, 366 piers and 190,000 square metres of freight depot. Of the 17 cross-border facilities, Luohu checkpoint is the largest passenger port while Huang- gang is the largest vehicular link and Yantian the second largest container seaport in the Chinese mainland. The Huangtian International Airport is the fourth largest in the nation. A modern transportation network is in place with highways, expressways and railways reaching out in all directions. Two trunk rail links “ Beijing-Canton Railway and Beijing-Kowloon Railway “ converge in Shenzhen. The city boasts eight ports and twelve cargo docks. With a handling capacity in 1999 of 2.98 million TEUs, Shenzhen has the second largest container terminal in China.




Doing Business with China
Doing Business with China
ISBN: 1905050089
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 648
Authors: Lord Brittan

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