Liantang Checkpoint cargo clearance facility to open
Writer: Han Ximin | Editor: Holly Wang | From: Shenzhen Daily | Updated: 2020-08-24
A scene of the cargo clearance facility of Liantang Checkpoint in Luohu District. DT News
The cargo clearance facility of Liantang Checkpoint in Luohu District, the seventh land border-crossing facility between Shenzhen and Hong Kong, will be put into use Wednesday, the 40th anniversary of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone.
The service time for cross-boundary goods vehicles will be from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., according to sources with the Shenzhen Municipal Office of Port of Entry and Exit.
A ceremony will be held at the checkpoint Wednesday morning, while the cargo clearance service will open for cross-boundary goods vehicles from 4 p.m. that day.
A new structure between the New Territories of Hong Kong and Luohu District in Shenzhen, the Liantang/Heung Yuen Wai Checkpoint is connected to the Heung Yuen Wai Highway on the Hong Kong side and the Shenzhen Eastern Corridor on the Shenzhen side.
It is built to serve the cross-boundary goods vehicles and passengers traveling between the two cities.
The commissioning of the new facility will shorten the travel time between Hong Kong and the eastern part of Shenzhen, as well as eastern Guangdong Province. It can relieve the existing cross-boundary freight traffic.
The opening of the passenger terminal has been delayed due to COVID-19 and the date is still to be decided.
Located in Shenzhen’s eastern Luohu and covering 17.7 hectares, the 1.5-billion-yuan (US$215 million) project is designed to handle 17,850 vehicle trips and 30,000 passenger trips a day.
It consists of four parts — the building for traveler inspection, the inspection spot for trucks, a cross-border bridge and the administration offices.
It will significantly shorten the travel distance and time between the two cities, as crossboundary traffic will not have to travel through congested local roads in Hong Kong and Shenzhen.
A trip between Hong Kong and Shenzhen’s Longgang and Pingshan districts will be cut to within 30 minutes.
At present, cross-border traffic going from the eastern New Territories in Hong Kong to eastern Shenzhen flows through Futian, Huanggang and Shatoujiao checkpoints.