Originally Posted by
MW147
I was not referring to the Lo Wu border crossing. I remember the office you are referring to. I do not know if it is still there.
What I was talking about is when you drive out of Shenzhen, about 20 minutes (depending on traffic) from the border, there was a check point. You had to stop and show passports (coming in or going out). Sometimes you just flashed it, and sometimes they really looked at everyone's passports. This was the border of where the Shenzhen visa was good for. The check point is still there, but not manned.
Ah, now it all makes much more sense. If that checkpoint (the one between Shenzhen SEZ and the rest of Guandong Province) is no longer manned, then it would make sense that the Shenzhen SEZ visa no longer exists for passports of any nationality, as they have removed the mechanism of keeping people with a SEZ visa but no regular PRC visa from proceeding out of the SEZ and into the mainland proper.
As a side note, what has this done to the population of Shenzhen?