A new customs office was unveiled in Shenzhen, south China's
Guangdong province on Friday. Mou Xinsheng, commissioner of the
General Administration of Customs of China, attended the opening
ceremony.
It is the fourth such customs clearing facility in Shenzhen, a
checkpoint on the western thoroughfare connecting Hong Kong and
Shenzhen.
Shenzhen Bay custom checkpoint is to begin operation Sunday
together with the HK-Shenzhen western thoroughfare, also to be put
into service on the same day, the 10th anniversary of Hong Kong's
return to China.
The thoroughfare, the fourth route connecting Hong Kong and
Shenzhen, which are separated by a local river, consists of a
5,545-meter-long, six-lane highway bridge spanning Shenzhen
Bay.
The customs checkpoint is situated on the side of Shenzhen,
where customs officers from Hong Kong and Shenzhen will handle
customs clearance procedures separately but in the same
facility.
The western HK-Shenzhen thoroughfare is designed to accommodate
58,600 motor vehicles daily, or 40 percent of the traffic between
the two places.
(Xinhua News Agency June 30, 2007)