| This article should be translated (or additional material should be added) from material at Lo Wu and zh:罗湖区. | Luohu (simplified Chinese: 罗湖; traditional Chinese: 羅湖; pinyin: luóhú; Cantonese: lɔ4wu4) is one of the 6 districts of the Shenzhen City in Guangdong province of China. It is adjacent to Shenzhen River in the south, and is surrounded by Futian, Bao'an, Longgang and Yantian districts in Shenzhen. The opposite side of Shenzhen River is the Lo Wu area of Hong Kong. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
Simplified Chinese characters (Simplified Chinese: 简体字; Traditional Chinese: 簡體字; pinyin: jiǎntǐzì; also called 简化字/簡化字, jiǎnhuàzì) are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. ...
Traditional Chinese characters are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. ...
Pinyin (拼音, pÄ«nyÄ«n) literally means join (together) sounds (a less literal translation being phoneticize, spell or transcription) in Chinese and usually refers to Hà nyÇ” PÄ«nyÄ«n (汉è¯æ‹¼éŸ³, literal meaning: Han language pinyin), which is a system of romanization (phonemic notation and transcription to Roman script) for Standard Mandarin. ...
Cantonese (粵語/粤è¯, lit. ...
Evening skyline of Shenzhen. ...
Guangdong (Simplified Chinese: 广东; Traditional Chinese: 廣æ±; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Kuang-tung; Postal System Pinyin: Kwangtung or Canton Province, Jyutping: gwong2 dung1; Vietnamese: Quảng Äông), is a province on the south coast of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
Sham Chun River (also Shenzhen River, Shenzhen He) (Chinese: 深圳河; Cantonese IPA: ; Jyutping: sam1 zan3 ho4; Hanyu Pinyin: Shēnzhèn Hé), together with the Sha Tau Kok River, serves as the natural border between Hong Kong and mainland China. ...
Baoan (宝安, Wade-Giles: Pao An) was formerly a county in Chinas northwest Shaanxi province (Postal System Pinyin: Shensi). ...
Longgang (龍崗) is one of the six districts of the Shenzhen sub-provincial city, in Guangdong Province, southern China. ...
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The size of Luohu district is about 78.9 km² and contains 10 subdistricts. The Subdistrict is one of the smallest Political_divisions_of_China. ...
Geography
| This article should be translated (or additional material should be added) from material at {{{1}}}. | Luohu is located in the centre of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone and adjacent to Hong Kong. It is a financial and trading centre. It covers an area of 78.89km². The Shenzhen River separates Hong Kong from Shenzhen, and there are four notorious busy immigration control points – Lo Wu, Lok Ma Chau, Man Kam To and Sha Tau Kok – which link the two places together with bridges. Sha Tau Kok (traditional Chinese: æ²™é 角) is a town in the northeastern corner of Hong Kong. ...
It is also one of the four districts of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (SEZ) of Shenzhen City of the People's Republic of China . The other three districts of the SEZ are Futian (福田), Nanshan (南山) and Yantian (盐田)
Luohu district has many hills and slopes. Currently within the district, there are several places with distinct altitude differences between two sides of the road. Besides, there are several hills. Some hills were flattened for infrastructure construction when the city was first built.
The highest peak, Wutong Mountain (944m) is in Luohu District.
The disctrict's west boundary with Futian is Hongling Road, and its east boundary with Yantian is Wutong Mountain. On the norths there is a Special Economic Zone boundary. A Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is a geographical region that has economic laws different from a countrys typical economic laws. ...
History Luohu district was established in October 1979. It is the first district in Shenzhen City. In November 1997, Yantian area became a district itself. This page refers to the year 1979. ...
1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Entertainment
Shopping Luohu is somewhat famous for shopping because of the low price. This feature is especially important since Hong Kong is currently under a somewhat depressed economic climate. On the other hand, Luohu is infamous of fake products of some well-known brands, e.g. Louis Vuition, Calvin Klein, Gucci, etc. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1280x960, 549 KB) Sightseeing in Dongmen Laojie of Shenzhen City. ...
ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1280x960, 549 KB) Sightseeing in Dongmen Laojie of Shenzhen City. ...
Calvin Klein (born November 19, 1942, The Bronx, New York City, United States) as Richard Klein, is a well-known fashion designer. ...
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There are many large shopping centers in Luohu. One of them is the Luohu Commercial City Building (罗湖商业城) which is just adjacent to Lo Wu Immigration Control Point. It is a 6-storey shopping center where you can find handbags, clothes, shoes, china-made audio-visual products and all sorts of digital video discs (DVD). Most of the consumer goods there are cheaper than that in Hong Kong. There are also some restaurants and massaging centers where tourists can relax themselves after shopping. DVD is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ...
Another famous shopping area is the Dongmen area (东门). Dongmen has about 300 years of history, so it is also called "Laojie" (literally, Old Street). It takes a 15-minutes walk to reach there from Lo Wu Immigration Control Point, or gets off at Laojie metro station. There you can find cinemas and a few large shopping centers. It is the heart of the Luohu district and it is usually very crowded during weekends when a lot of local citizens as well as tourists from Hong Kong enjoy their shopping there. The Shenzhen Metro (SZM, Chinese: 深圳地鐵) is the underground railway in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China. ...
Transportation
Trunk roads - Shennan Dong Lu (深南东路)
- Dongmen Lu (东门路)
- Yanhe Lu (沿河路) and Chunfeng Lu flyover (春风路高架桥)
- Nigang Lu (泥岗路)
- Luosha Gonglu (罗沙公路)
Buses and minibuses Buses and minibuses serve as popular means of transportation modes in Luohu.
Shenzhen Railway Shenzhen Railway Station (深圳火车站) is located here. It serves as a terminal for train routes towards tens of cities in China.
There are 4 metro stations in Luohu district, namely, Luo Hu, Guo Mao (国贸, Shenzhen World Trade Center), Lao Jie (老街) and Da Ju Yuan (大剧院, Shenzhen Grand Theater). The Shenzhen Metro (SZM, Chinese: 深圳地鐵) is the underground railway in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China. ...
Crimes This section needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of article quality. After the section has been cleaned up, you may remove this message. For help, see How to Edit a Page and the Style and How-to Directory. Crimes ranging from homicide, robbery, mugging, as well as stealing are pervading in the Lo Wu District. The most popular two are child trafficking and counterfeit banknotes. Homicide is the killing of another human being by one or more others. ...
Mugging may refer to: A type of robbery. ...
Theft (also known as stealing) is in general, the wrongful taking of someone elses property without that persons willful consent. ...
Trafficking in human beings includes recruiting, harbouring, obtaining, and transporting persons by use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjecting them to involuntary acts, such as commercial sexual exploitation (including prostitution) or involuntary labour, i. ...
A counterfeit is an imitation that is made with the intent to deceptively represent its content or origins. ...
There are some child trafficking gangs in the district, abducting children aged from three to four from near crowded places like vegetable markets and supermarkets. The abductees will then be sold to various cities in Guangdong, mostly to the farmers there. It is alleged that the problem springs from China's one-child policy. It is a Chinese tradition that people would rather have a son than a daughter, so many families who have been unable to have a son, opt to buy one from traffickers. The kidnapped children are typically sold for between 1,000 to 10,000 yuan. In September 2003, police in south China smashed a child trafficking ring and rescued nine children. Nevertheless, the central government is still being criticized for not paying enough attention to this problem. Guangdong (Simplified Chinese: 广东; Traditional Chinese: 廣æ±; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Kuang-tung; Postal System Pinyin: Kwangtung or Canton Province, Jyutping: gwong2 dung1; Vietnamese: Quảng Äông), is a province on the south coast of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
The one-child policy is the current birth control policy in the mainland of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
100 Renminbi Yuan issued in 1999 The renminbi (Simplified Chinese: 人民å¸; Traditional Chinese: 人民幣; pinyin: ; literally peoples currency) is the official currency in the mainland of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
2003 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for September, 2003. ...
Apart from child trafficking, counterfeit banknotes is another serious problem in the district. Dongmen shopping district is alleged to be a black spot for passing fake notes to customers. Hong Kong shoppers are often the targets of the scam as they are less familiar with the features of yuan notes. Shop owners usually keep only a small amount of fake notes, which is insufficient for a successful prosecution. Even though an employee is caught red-handed, the shop owner will deny all knowledge and blame the individual. That's why it is quite difficult for the authorities to crack down this scam. In October 2003, about 40 shops in Dongmen shopping district have been shut after they were found passing counterfeit banknotes to customers. 2003 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for October, 2003. ...
In November, 2003, a '70-day storm operation against crimes' was launched in Lo Wu. It aimed at putting forward improvements in social order of the district.
Entertainment near the Lo Wu District This section needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of article quality. After the section has been cleaned up, you may remove this message. For help, see How to Edit a Page and the Style and How-to Directory.
Shopping - Section moved to Luohu.
However, shopping in Lo Wu has greatly affected the economy of Hong Kong. Since Hong Kong people earn money in Hong Kong from different sectors, they spend it there and the money will probably flow to mainland China. Gradually, the shops in Hong Kong will lose their market. The boom of retailing sector in Lo Wu may mean a blow to the already-depressed Hong Kong economy.
To be optimistic, as the people in China grow richer, the shops in Lo Wu may also gain a large sum of money from them. In this way, the money of two places flow in a two-way direction, that means Hong Kong is not just flowing out money. Shops in Hong Kong on the other hand attract mainlanders to spend money through the Individual Visit Scheme implemented recently. The Individual Visit Scheme (Hong Kong/Traditional Chinese:自由行, Mainland/Simplified Chinese:个人游) was begun on July 28, 2003, to allow travelers from Mainland China to visit Hong Kong on an individual basis. ...
It is understandable that why shops in Hong Kong now accept the use of yuan. Mainlander is obviously one of their main market. Shop owners are willing to ease them by using a convenient currency exchange. Consequently, the shops in Lo Wu make a spark for mainland people to shop in Hong Kong. We hope that this spark will glow into a big fire to light up Hong Kong's economy. In finance, the exchange rate between two currencies specifies how much one currency is worth in terms of the other. ...
Walking hand-in-hand with nature This section needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of article quality. After the section has been cleaned up, you may remove this message. For help, see How to Edit a Page and the Style and How-to Directory. As one can see, there are myriad types of entertainment in Luohu, shopping in the busy urban centre or doing sports in clubs located in suburban areas. But how about taking a rest in the quiet and beautiful suburb? If you are not so keen on sports and just want to relax in the tender embrace of suburban beauties, then, Luohu Forestry Orchard will be your best choice. The Orchard is found in 1986 and now under the direct leadership of the Council of Luohu District and Government of Luohu District. It is located by the beautiful lake of Xianhu, back against Xianhu arboretum. It has been suggested that Suburbia be merged into this article or section. ...
Actually, it is an integrated enterprise majoring in lychee and longan and developing with flowers and vegetable industry. So, yielding fruits is the main income of the forestry orchard, with more than 2000 mu of litchi and longan of high quality. All the fruit trees entering the period of fertility have an annual turnout of 300,000 kg. Binomial name Litchi chinensis Cambess The Lychee Litchi chinensis is the sole member of the genus Litchi in the soapberry family Sapindaceae. ...
Binomial name Dimocarpus longan The longan (Simplified Chinese: 龙眼; Traditional Chinese: é¾çœ¼; pinyin: ; Cantonese long-ngan; literally dragon eye) is an evergreen tree native to southeast Asia from southern China south to Indonesia. ...
Apart from that, the forestry has strived toward the direction of urban ecological tourism with a full line of recreation and sports facilities in a quiet and ethereal environment. Ecology is the branch of science that studies the distribution and abundance of living organisms, and the interactions between organisms and their environment. ...
Three kinds of activities 1, One can just enjoy the beautiful and relaxing atmosphere in the garden, wandering hand-in-hand with nature, smelling the sweet aroma of fresh flowers, couching under the shadow of trees, in short, dragging oneself out from the pressure of busy urban lives.
2, Can’t get enough? Not satisfied with just sitting and walking? Fortunately, there is also a green lake artificially built in the garden. Echoing with other beautiful fauna and flora in the garden, it accomplishes the formation of a perfect organic whole. One can just fish by the lake and enjoy this perfect beauty.
3, Moreover, another activity called "Farm of Yourself" help visitors experience the ancient way of life. It is based on the idea of ancient people building huts as their own homes and fencing fields as their gardens. In this activity, visitors can build their farms and grow whatever they like all by themselves. It is especially suitable for children as they can learn the value of labor through this interesting activity. For the span of recorded history starting roughly 5,000-5,500 years ago, see Ancient history. ...
See also Evening skyline of Shenzhen. ...
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