The international platform for Automotive industry, Aug.26-29 2008 Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center

Shenzhen is a coastal city in southern China. It is in the south of Guangdong Province and south of the Tropic of Cancer. Demarcated from Hong Kong by Shenzhen River to the south, it is bordered by Dongguan and Huizhou to the north, Daya Bay to the east and Lingding Sea and the mouth of the Pearl River to the west.

Nowadays, Shenzhen has basically formed new industrial structure, which takes hi-tech industry and manufacturing industry as the base and supported by modern tertiary industry.

In regional layout, Shenzhen is featuring in "soft industry in the south and hard industry in the north, and port and tourism industries in the west and east." Four districts within the Special Economic Zone including Nanshan, Futian, Luohu and Yantian take finance, logistics, hi-tech, software and trade as the pillar industries. Shenzhen plans new types of metropolitan industrial parks, vigorously encouraging companies' headquarters to locate there, as well as the convention and exhibition economy. Shenzhen requires areas in these districts to have the "three-high" characteristics, namely, high technology, high-end products and high added value.

Shenzhen is one of China's most important tourist destinations and foreign exchange earning bases. Although lack of big mountains and rivers, and historic sites, it earned a fame for theme parks and tourism innovation, featuring city scenes, seaside sightseeing, folk culture, shopping and arts.

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Climate:

Shenzhen has a mild, subtropical maritime climate with plenty of rain and sunshine. Summer is as long as 6 months. The annual average temperature is 23.7℃, with the highest temperature reaching 36.6℃ and the lowest 1.4℃. The frost-free period can be as long as 355 days a year, with sunshine time being 1,975 hours a year; solar radiation 5,225 trillion joule per square meter; and relative humidity 72.3 percent. The rainy season lasts from May to September, with an annual average rainfall of 1,608.1 mm and occasional typhoons in summer and autumn.

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Civil Aviation

Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport is one of the first category airports in China. With 95 domestic airlines and 14 international airlines, passenger traffic through the airport totaled 14.24 million, a 31.4 percent increase over the previous year. The cargo traffic 49.54 tons, 21.8 percent increase over the previous year, ranking the fourth in China and ascending to the global Top 100.

Railway Transport

Shenzhen has extensive railway network, taking the lead in China to open the quasi-high speed trains connecting Shenzhen and Guangzhou. Bejing-Guangzhou railway and Beijing-Kowlong railway, two arterial railway links across the continent, meet in Shenzhen. The Phase I of Shenzhen Metro have been finished and put into use in 2004. Shenzhen Metro Line 4, jointly constructed by Shenzhen and Hong Kong, will put into operation by 2008.
In terms of long-distance transportation, Shenzhen has regular trains to Beijing, Zhengzhou, Hefei, Jiujiang, Wuhan, Changsha, Yueyang, Zhaoqing, Shaoguan, Maoming, Heyuan, Meizhou, Shantou, and Hong Kong.

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Passports and passes:

Although Chinese tourists require a special'frontier pass'to enter Shenzhen, non Chinese do not. When you enter the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) by bus however, the local police and customs officers will board to check passports and frontier passes. If you travel through the zone by taxi, you have to get out of your vehicle at the border and walk through customs, picking up your taxi on the other side again. You may be asked to show your passport here and all this bureaucratism is rather time consuming.

Visas:

Visitors are permitted to stay in Shenzhen for 72 hours without a Chinese Visa. You are not however, allowed to travel elsewhere in the country and must stay within the city boundaries.

Currency:

Shenzhen operates a dual currency system. Hong Kong dollars and Chinese RMB can be used to pay for things, but only RMB is usually given as change. Most hotels change money and there is a money exchange bureau at the Hong Kong border in the train station.