Scott Welsh | August 31, 2021
When Traveling on the metro or bus, the best idea is to purchase an electronic travel card, this card allows you to by pass the hordes of people waiting to buy tickets at the station; also using this card gives you a small discount on every trip traveled. To buy a card you just go to the ticket booth at the station or 7-11 stores and tell them you want to buy a shenzhentong ka, usually you will pay 100rmb, which will be a combination of a deposit for the card (you will receive this deposit back once you surrender the card) and the amount you can use for tickets.
When you purchase a Metro or Shenzhentong Travel card, ensure you keep the receipt with the ID number of the card on it. In case of theft or misplacement of the card, you can go to the ticket booth at the station and cancel the card, and if you have the receipt on hand you can also receive the balance, minus the deposit, of the card back.
Shenzhen Subway
Shenzhen Metro Group Co., Ltd., founded on July 31, 1998, is a large-scale sole proprietorship SOE under the direct control of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the People’s Government of Shenzhen, and the leader in the construction and operation of rail transit of the city, with main businesses covering metro engineering construction, metro operation, investment and financing, resources operation and property management, engineering investigation and design, etc., formed a quaternity industrial chain of metro “investment and financing, construction, operation, resources operation and property development”.
As of the third quarter of 2016, Shenzhen Metro Group Co., Ltd. possesses registered capital of 44.07136 billion Yuan, total assets of 274.815 billion Yuan, net assets of 182.344 billion Yuan, with asset-liability ratio of 33.6%, and 16700 employees. Shenzhen Metro Group Co., Ltd. has formed “1+3” strategic management and control structure including three business headquarters of construction, operation and property development, and other related subordinate business. The group is divided into nine functional departments and three centers, and the related subordinate business includes municipal design, engineering consultancy, resources operation, property management, and railway management, etc.
As the main force in the construction of Shenzhen rail transit, since its founding, Shenzhen Metro Group Co., Ltd. has completed the lines 1, 2, 3, 5 and 11 in Shenzhen rail transit project phases I, II and III, with a total length of 210km, and construction tasks of 133 stations and lines. We have synchronously constructed Luohu, Futian, Shenzhen North Station, Shenzhen East Station and other key transport hubs, and completed nearly one hundred municipal agent-construction projects. At present, Shenzhen Metro Group Co., Ltd. is undertaking 5 lines and 7 extension lines in Shenzhen rail transit project phase III and phase III reconstruction, with a total length about 183.9km, and the construction of Longhua New Area Tramway Demonstration Line Project of 11.7km. At the same time, Shenzhen Metro Group Co., Ltd. is positively preparing the construction of the first 11 lines in phase IV, with a total length of 274km. As to the end of 2020, about 435km metro and tramway will be opened and operated in Shenzhen, and it’s expected that the scale of rail transit network will break through 1000km in 2025.
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