Dongguan: Superior Geographic Location and Convenient Transportation Network

Located on the east bank of Pearl River Delta and middle-south of Guangdong Province, Dongguan stands between Guangzhou and Shenzhen cities. It is only 90 km away from Hong Kong. Humen Bridge of Dongguan is the only land-hinge connecting the east and west bank of PRD (Pearl River Delta). Foreign Invested Enterprises in Dongguan could enjoy great convenience of shipping products to the overseas market through the international transportation center- Hong Kong, or the ports along the Pearl River. They also could conveniently ship the goods to the South China, even the whole mainland China market through the well-developed transportation network in Dongguan. Meanwhile, Dongguan enjoys established logistics network. It’s very convenient to export the products manufactured in Dongguan, which could be transported to Hong Kong within 2 hours and re-exported to the whole world.

Convenient Customs Clearance
Dongguan has established and opened twelve customs offices, including two Class A customs, and four checkpoints for through trucks to Hong Kong and Macao with an average daily number of over 7000 trucks crossing the borders.

The city has initiated the instant customs clearance reform for land transportation, adopting a global advanced model featuring “document examination in advance, customs clearance upon verification” and further enlarging the pilot range of electric contract filing system. In 2007, there were altogether 288 enterprises using electric manual and 2,354 enterprises under adopting electric approval system. When using the electric manuals, paper documents turn into electric data.

The Enterprises could submit the application to the Customs and handle various kinds of import and export business through internet with IC card / IKEY as their identity authentication for system operation. In addition, the Customs provides “24 hours on-line services” everyday for enterprises’ application through electric approval system. The system also helps enterprises to receive feedbacks in time when filing the contract, and know whether they pass the contract approval or not, as well as the reasons of failing in order to amend in time.

The cancellation-after-verification is automatically finished, so that the passing rate and approval efficiency greatly increase. At the present in Dongguan Liaobu cargo vehicle checkpoint, the average clearance time of each cargo vehicle under the intelligent customs clearance model is cut down to 17 minutes 37 seconds, the fastest only 3 minutes.

Three International Airports: Within a distance of 50 km from Dongguan, there is Guangzhou Airport in the north and Shenzhen Airport in the south, which could reach in only 50 mins’ drive through expressways. It takes about 2 hours to Hong Kong Airport by driving.

Four Railways: The Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway, Guangzhou-Shenzhen Quasi-high-speed Railway, Guangzhou-Meizhou-Shantou Railway and the Beijing-Kowloon Railway all interchange in Dongguan, connected with national railway network. The Customs of Dongguan Railway Station is a Class A Customs for entry-exit inspection and quarantine of the through trains from Guangzhou, Beijing and Shanghai to Kowloon.

Five Ports: The Humen Port in Dongguan is a Class A Port opened to foreign vessels. The Huangpu Port and Xinsha Port in Guangzhou and the Yantian Port and Shekou Container Terminals in Shenzhen are all within less than 1 hour’s drive from Dongguan, while Hong Kong Container Terminals are only about two hours’ drive away.

Highway Network: The length of existing highways in Dongguan totals over 3800 km, with expressways extending to all directions. Dongguan’s highways’ density reaches 154km/ km², which ranks the first among the prefecture-level cities in China. The convenient traffic network between Dongguan and neighboring cities has come into shape composed of 4 major inter-city expressways traversing Dongguan: The Guangzhou-Shenzhen Expressway, Dongguan-Shenzhen Expressway, Guangzhou-Huizhou Expressway, and Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway. A lot of throughways inside Dongguan completed lately have developed a “One-Hour-Driving” network in the city.