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that usage of Shekou was increasing, but it still
functioned as a feeder to Hong Kong. DC for T felt that the planners had a dream that Shenzhen needed its own deepwater port. They would need a reclamation of 800m to
provide working areas. CS said he had been told that
Yantian would not be developed until the next century.
RS/NT suggested that the Yantian proposal might be a response from the municipality to the Shekou peninsula developments. He added that a road planned for Yantian had not been completed, and that the proposed two-bore
tunnel had been limited to one.
37. RS/NT enquired as to the proportion of goods from
Guangdong and Shenzhen which passed through Kwai Chung,
and how much was exported direct. What was the modal
split of transport? He noted that vehicle crossings at Man Kam To had reached 9000/day, and there had been 1200
new applications for licences. DS(ES)2 said most transport was waterborne, although there was a growing
trend to use roads. Containerisation in China remained
quite limited. Other members confirmed that, some direct exports from Canton and Huangpu apart, there were mostly feeder services to Hong Kong with lighters or Ro-Ro ships.
38.
On the road network, RS/NT believed that the superhighway
would be seen, in Hong Kong terms, as a "primary
distributor". STI asked, in the light of the apparent
emphasis on concentrating development in existing population centres rather than the SSEZ, whether there was any stress on developing roads in the towns. DC for T said he had seen little evidence of this, although a
circular road around Canton was promised, and a new Canton-Huangpu road was being constructed which would remove a bottleneck. He noted that Shenzhen had spent
huge sums on roads and other infrastructural development.
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