Shenzhen 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 2010, 198 million people and 15.71 million vehicles crossed the border through Shenzhen checkpoints.

Shipping

By the end of 2010, Shenzhen Port has been home to 176 berths, with 69 capable of accommodating vessels above 10,000 tons and 44 for container ships.

In 2010, Shenzhen Port handled 220 million tons of cargo, up 15.59 percent from 2009. The container throughput rose 23.1 percent to reach 22.51 million TEUs, ranking fourth in the world for the eighth consecutive year.

A total of 230 international container routes go through Shenzhen, with 60 to America, 57 to Europe, 14 to Africa, seven to Australia, and 92 to other Asian cities. In 2010, about 24,353 container ships stopped over in Shenzhen.

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 130 air routes. The number of passengers passing through the airport totaled 26.71 million in 2010. It handled 809,000 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 166 pairs of trains commute between Shenzhen and Guangzhou, of which 110 pairs are express passenger trains. The Harmony Express runs at 5-minute intervals between Shenzhen and Guangzhou in peak hours. In terms of long-distance transportation, Shenzhen has regular train services to Beijing, Shanghai, Fuzhou, Guilin, Jiujiang, Wuchang, Yueyang, Zhengzhou, Changde, Xi'an and Shengyang.

Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Kong Kong Railway and Xiamen-Shenzhen Railway are under construction. The Shenzhen section of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Kong Kong Railway is expected to start operation in August 2011. The Shenzhen North Railway Station in Longhua Subdistrict, which started operation in June 2011, is expected to become a regional rail transport hub in southern China.

Shenzhen Metro

Phase I of the Shenzhen Metro was opened on Dec. 28, 2004. In June 2011, all the five lines included in Phase II of the Shenzhen Metro were opened, forming a 178-km Metro network. In 2010, Shenzhen Metro transported 163 million people, or 446,000 each day.

Road Network

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

By the end of 2010, 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.

Bus transportation

In November 2010, Shenzhen signed an agreement with the Ministry of Transport to build Shenzhen into an exemplary city for public transport. By the end of 2010, the city had 12,500 public buses on 756 routes. Public buses were used by 2.44 billion people in 2010.