Shenzhen Metro

Shenzhen Metro (Chinese深圳 地铁/深圳 地铁, Pinyin Shenzhen Ditie ) is the metro in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen (Guangdong Province).

The subway was opened on 28 December 2004, making it the eighth Shenzhen city in China with a metro ( to Beijing, Hong Kong, Tianjin, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Dalian and Wuhan). In its first phase, the Metro system includes two located in the city center crossing lines (line 1 with fifteen stations, and line 4 with five stations ), which together had 21.5 km length of the route. End of 2010, lines 2 ( Window of the World - Chiwan, 15.5 km, 12 stations) and 3 ( Caopu - Shuanglong, 25 km, 16 stations ) were opened; the path length is thus 69.7 km at 49 stations.

Major stations of the Metro are Luo Hu, which is also where the crossing of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone and the Hong Kong SAR next to the main train station. There is also a station at the Window of the World (世界之窗), a tourist attraction and amusement park. The system is equipped with platform screen doors that only open when a train behind it.

Expansion plans

The expansion plans for the full system are very ambitious. Thus, in addition to the section-wise extensions of existing lines to the west ( line 1) and north ( line 4) mainly acting as a ring lines 7 and 9, a priority. A total of 12 lines are planned according to the latest plans, which are very far outboard extend aboveground and in the more remote parts of the city to the west and northwest, north and east. This spatially weitausholende and very rapidly driven system after removal of about 2025 are among the largest and most efficient metro systems in the world. Furthermore, a direct metro connection of the two about 38 km as the crow distant airports of Shenzhen and Hong Kong is provided.

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