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Celine Sun

Shenzhen has invited tenders from Chinese and international design institutes and companies for a new train station, local media reported yesterday.

The new station, to be located in the Longhua area of Baoan district, will serve as a transport hub for the city, linking three major mainland railway lines.

According to the Jing Bao newspaper yesterday,  the bidding parties include  companies such as Arup  from Britain, Nikken Sekkei from Japan, Obermeyer from Germany, Parsons from the United States and survey and design institutes under the mainland's Ministry of Railways.

The new station will serve as a point of convergence for the Beijing-Guangzhou-Shenzhen line, the Hangzhou-Fuzhou-Shenzhen line and the new Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong express line. For local traffic,  it will be linked  with the Shenzhen subway system.

In addition, the Longhua station will help supplement  Lowu Station, which is often overcrowded on holiday weekends, and will serve as an entry port for Shenzhen.

It will adopt the simplified customs arrangements  proposed for the Huangguang border checkpoint.

'The new station will definitely excel [over] Lowu Station both in terms of its scale and capacity for passenger traffic,' said Arup designer Ma Hui.

The media reports did not give an estimate of the cost of the project but said the new station would have an area of about 240 hectares. It will have an annual designed capacity of 44.5 million passengers.

Mr Ma said the location of some stations on the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong express line is still being discussed by officials from the Ministry of Railways and Shenzhen and Hong Kong authorities.

'The ending station for the line must be set up in the Kowloon area, but how the line exactly goes has not been decided yet,'  he said.



Shenzhen invites tenders for new station that will link three major rail lines