Originally Posted by
moondog
I was about to reply with our standard warning that SZX is one of the select few airports that is blacklisted from visa free transit, but this finally appears to have been remedied.

Shenzhen has special rules considering it borders HK. So for example, it is possible to get a short stay visa at the border between HK/Shenzen - a friend did it just a few weeks ago.
That said, the difficulty with SZX was always that lack of int'l connectivity on a single ticket, a requirement for the Transit visa - it seems the OP has a way around this though.