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.
| Lo Wu Control Point | |
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羅湖管制站 | |
 Lo Wu station and Checkpoint seen against China's Luohu Port in Shenzhen | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Border control |
| Location | Lo Wu, Hong Kong |
| Coordinates | 22°31′56″N 114°06′48″E / 22.53222°N 114.11333°E 22°31′44″N 114°07′06″E / 22.52889°N 114.11833°E |
| Management |  Immigration Department (Hong Kong), Customs and Excise Department (Hong Kong) |
| Website | |
| td.gov.hk | |
| Coordinates | 22°31′44″N 114°07′06″E / 22.528889°N 114.118333°E |
| Carries | Pedestrians |
| Crosses | Frontier Closed Area |
| Statistics | |
| Toll | No toll |
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| Traditional Chinese | 羅湖管制站 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 罗湖管制站 | ||||||||||
| Jyutping | lo4 wu4 gun2 zai3 zaam6 | ||||||||||
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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]
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- ^ "Appendix 7 - Statistics on Passenger Traffic by Control Point". Annual Report 2015. Immigration Department.
- ^ Immigration Control Points Archived April 16, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Control Point Locations (English/Chinese), GovHK. (Accessed on 2011-05-10.)