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Lo Wu Control Point

Coordinates: 22°31′44″N 114°07′06″E / 22.52889°N 114.11833°E / 22.52889; 114.11833
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Lo Wu Control Point
Lo Wu Station and Checkpoint seen against China's Luohu Port in Shenzhen
Traditional Chinese羅湖管制站
Simplified Chinese罗湖管制站
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinLuóhú Guǎnzhì zhàn
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpinglo4 wu4 gun2 zai3 zaam6

Lo Wu Control Point (Chinese: 羅湖管制站) is a Hong Kong immigration control point in Lo Wu, New Territories. It sits within the Frontier Closed Area that runs along the border with mainland China. Its counterpart across the border is the Luohu Port in Shenzhen, China.

The control point is integrated with Lo Wu Station of the Mass Transit Railway (MTR).

In 2015, 83.2 million people passed through Lo Wu Control Point, making it the busiest control point in Hong Kong.[1] It is open from 06:30 to 00:00 midnight daily.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ "Appendix 7 - Statistics on Passenger Traffic by Control Point". Annual Report 2015. Immigration Department.
  2. ^ Immigration Control Points Archived April 16, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Control Point Locations (English/Chinese), GovHK. (Accessed on 2011-05-10.)

22°31′44″N 114°07′06″E / 22.52889°N 114.11833°E / 22.52889; 114.11833