--FILE--Vue aérienne de masses de véhicules la queue pour passer le contrôle, Meilin qui est l'un des points de contrôle sur la ligne frontière physique erecte
--FILE--Aerial view of masses of vehicles queuing up to pass the Meilin Checkpoint, which is one of the checkpoints on the physical border line erected to mark off the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (SEZ) from the rest of the nation, in a traffic jam in Shenzhen city, south China's Guangdong province, 29 August 2016. Guangdong Province will be completely tearing down the physical border erected nearly three decades ago to mark off the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (SEZ) from the rest of the nation, as the city seeks more balanced development on both sides of the line, said instructions issued by China's central government. The State Council has offered its consent to eradicate the SEZ border, a barbed-wire land border with intermittent inspection points, which runs more than 80 kilometers, marking off the areas designated in 1979 from other districts in the southern hub. This decision comes under the backdrop of "new circumstances, new missions and new tasks for the SEZ, and to promote integrated development across the zone, " said the document published Monday afternoon by the State Council, China's cabinet. In reality, the functional purposes of this physical line became obsolete starting in July 2010, when parts of the city such as Bao'an and Longgang districts were incorporated into the Shenzhen SEZ, expanding the zone to nearly five times its original size.
