Overview

Luohu District is one of the six oldest districts of Shenzhen, and covers a total of 78.4 square kilometers of land, including 33.7 square kilometers of urban area and 44.6 square kilometers of ecological reserve. A total of 1.58 million residents live and work within its 10 subdistricts and 83 communities, pushing the population density to 20,256 persons per square kilometer.

The Laojie Metro Station in the thriving commercial block of Dongmen sees more than 1.2 million visitors per day during peak season. The Luohu Checkpoint, one of three immigration checkpoints within the district, sees one of the largest annual visitor flow among all land passenger checkpoints in the country.

Luohu was established in March 1979, when it became one of the six districts of the newly established city of Shenzhen, transformed from the previous Bao'an county.

The following year, it became part of the special economic zone (SEZ) of Shenzhen, one of the earliest SEZs in China.

The district is located in central and southern Shenzhen, and overlooks the New Territories in Hong Kong over the Shenzhen River to the south. The diverse topography ranges from hills and terraces, to plains, rivers and lakes. The highest point of Shenzhen city, the 943-meter-high Wutong Mountain sits in the eastern part of the district.

The region's subtropical monsoon climate is characterized by warm and humid weather, ample sunshine, rainfall, and typhoons that typically make landfall in the summer and autumn seasons.