“Shenzhen” the geographic name beginning saw the historical records in 1410 (bright Yunglo eight years), first year constructed the ruins in the Qing Dynasty. The local dialect is named the drainage between the field is “the dike” or “wells up”. Because Shenzhen its rivers and lakes are just densely covered, nearby the village has a deep-water channel to acquire fame. Shenzhen calls the huge mythical bird the city.


　　Shenzhen located at Guangdong Province south central coastal area, Pearl River estuary east northerly. The thing long 81.4 kilometers, the north and south wide (most weak point) is 10.8 kilometers, east is near the Dapeng, west continuous Jiangkou, south neighbour Hong Kong, borders on with the Kowloon peninsula, separation of with the Hong Kong New Territory river, is called “Hong Kong's back garden”. The whole city land area 1952.84 square kilometers, at the end of 2005 resident population 8,277,500 people, come from the outside areas most, therefore Shenzhen is called “the immigration city”.


　　Shenzhen's special zone constructs a span 129.7 kilometer special zone management line with the non-special zone, is passing in and out the special zone 7 road's street intersections to be equipped with the frontier inspection station separately. The Shenzhen special economic zone was established in 1980, east it north the Dapeng the young angle, west to the Zhujiangkou peaceful village, south and the Hong Kong New Territory tight company, north depending on the Chinese parasol tree mountain, the sheep Taiwan sierra, the total area 327.5 square kilometers, has included the Luohu area, Futian District and the Mt. Nan area, was our country besides Hainan Province the biggest special economic zone. The Shenzhen special economic zone was established in 1980, was our country besides Hainan Province the biggest special economic zone. Shenzhen is “the immigration city”, its population most comes from the outside areas, it is also a long and narrow city, the thing long 81.4 kilometers, the north and south is narrowest place actually has 10.8 kilometers.

　　After surveys, Shenzhen total area is 1952.84 square kilometers, slightly is short in the original statistical 2020 square kilometers. And, Shenzhen special economic zone area is 395.81 square kilometers.

　　The land utilization transferred the big urban - - suburb shape from the countryside shape. Is rich in the litchi chinensis and so on famous fruit, the minerals mainly for building materials and so on granite, marble, the metal minerals may the yield be small, energy and so on oil, gas depend on the outside input completely.

　　Shenzhen is situated at south central the People's Republic of China Guangdong Province the coast, the land territory position east longitude 113°46 ' to 114°37 ', north latitude 22°27 ' to 22°52 '. Shenzhen land resource sifted the achievement according to 1995, the whole city total area 1948.69 square kilometers, in special zone 391.71 square kilometers. Shenzhen is apart from the Guangzhou 160 kilometers, is apart from Hong Kong, the Kowloon 35 kilometers. East is near the Dapeng, west continuous Jiangkou, south and Hong Kong New Territory borders on, north depending on Dongguan, Huizhou two cities. Shenzhen is situated at the Zhujiang Delta the front, is connects in Hong Kong and China's link and the bridge, is the South China coast important transport hub. The western passage will link closely the Shenzhen and Hong Kong two places in the same place.