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Regulation of Shenzhen River stage I-IV

Drainage Services Department
Shenzhen River between Deep Bay and Pak Fu Shan
Stage I: 19 May 1995;
Stage II: 13 May 1997 (Contract A), 10 November 1997 (Contract B).;
Stage III: 31 December 2001(Contract A), 26 July 2002(Contract B), 2 December 2003(Contract C).;

Stage IV: 30 August 2013 (Contract A), 30 December 2013 (Contract B)

Stage I : 18 April 1997;
Stage II: 9 June 2000;
Stage III: 30 November 2006;
Stage IV: 2 July 2017
  • Stage I: 
  • Shenzhen-Hong Kong Joint Technical Group on Shenzhen River Regulation
  • Stage II:
  • Guangdong Provincial Investigation, Design and Research Institute of Water Conservancy & Electric Power, Atkins Haswell
  • Stage III:
  • Changjiang Water Resources Commission and the Hong Kong Binnie Consultants Ltd
  • Stage IV:
  • Shenzhen Water Planning and Design Institute, Black & Veatch Hong Kong Ltd
  • Stage I:
  • Joint venture comprising  China Shenzhen International Cooperation (Group) Co. Ltd, China Water and Water Power 13th Engineering Bureau and The Fourth Harbour Engineering Bureau of the Ministry of Communications
  • Stage II:
  • China Railway Construction Corporation (Contract A) , Shenzhen River Regulation Engineering Co. Ltd (Contract B).
  • Stage III:

  • China Railway 18th Construction Bureau Corporation Co. Ltd (Contract A), China Road and Bridge Corporation (Contract B), China International Water and Electric Corporation (Contract C).

  • Stage IV:

  • China Road and Bridge Corporation (Contract A), Shenzhen Shengang Construction Group Co. Ltd (Contract B).

The Shenzhen (SZ) River is the boundary river between the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) and Shenzhen. To alleviate the perennial flooding problem in Yuen Long and North District, SZ River, with a total length of 18 km from Pak Fu Shan to SZ Bay, has been upgraded under stages I, II, III and IV of the regulation of SZ River projects and completed in 1997, 2000, 2006 and 2017 respectively. SZ River was upgraded by the regulation works including deepening and widening to withstand a rainstorm with a return period of one in 50 years.

The works comprises
  1. regulation of about 18 kilometres long river channel of SZ River between Shenzhen Bay and Pak Fu Shan under Stages I - IV;
  2. improvement to Lok Ma Chau and Liu Pok river bends under Stage I;
  3. provision of border security facilities under Stage II;
  4. reconstruction of Lo Wu Railway Bridge under Stage III;
  5. construction of a flood retention lake with a capacity of about 80 000 cubic metres under Stage IV; and
  6. ecological conservation and environmental protection works, including landscaping, ecological riverbank protection, riverbank greening, maintaining natural river bed to minimize erosion and siltation downstream.

Project Award(s)

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    Stage I : Top Qualified Project of Ministry of Water Resource
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    Stage II : National construction example in application of soil engineering synthetic material
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    Stage III : “Dai Yu Medal” for meritorious project
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    Stage IV : Civilized construction site
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