Shenzhen is the only mainland city that has land, sea and air checkpoints. Checkpoints in Shenzhen see 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 reservation customs declaration for enterprises.

In 2008, 182 million people and 15.469 million vehicles crossed border through Shenzhen checkpoints.

Shipping

Shenzhen Port has become the world's fourth-largest port in terms of container throughput. It is home to 161 berths for vessels weighing more than 500 tons, of which 71 can accommodate vessels above 10,000 tons and 34 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 40 international shipping companies run 195 worldwide container routes in Shenzhen. In 2008, Shenzhen Port handled 211 million tons of cargo while the throughput of containers reached 21.416 million tons, ranking fourth in the world in terms of container throughput for the sixth consecutive year.

Civil Aviation

Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport is one of the first-class civil airports in China and has become one of the country's four busiest airports. It operates 106 domestic air routes and 26 international ones. Passengers traveling through the airport totaled 21.4 million in 2008. It handled 598,000 tons of cargo last year.

Railway Transportation

Shenzhen has an extensive railway network. Within China, the city took the lead in opening the quasi-high speed railway connecting Shenzhen and Guangzhou. Two arterial railways cutting across the Chinese continent, the Beijing-Guangzhou railway and the Beijing-Kowloon railway, meet in Shenzhen. A total of 116 pairs of trains commute between Shenzhen and Guangzhou, of which 12 pairs are between Guangzhou and Kowloon via Shenzhen and 64 pairs are express passenger trains running at 15-minute intervals on average. 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.

Metro Transportation

Phase I of the Shenzhen Metro was finished and put into service on Dec. 28, 2004. It transported 135.5038 million people in 2008, or 370,000 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 while traveling around the city. The total line transfers required within the network to reach any destination in the city will not exceed three.

Road Transportation

Roads and expressways in Shenzhen form a network that connects with the rest of the Pearl River Delta region.

By the end of 2008, 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 the Delta cities and expansion of the expressway network.

Public Transportation

Learning from Singapore and Hong Kong, Shenzhen took the country's lead in developing a bus rapid transit (BRT) system. By the end of 2008, the city had a total of 24,000 public buses on 488 routes, covering a total length of 12,000 kilometers. More than 2 billion people used public transportation in 2008.