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Shenzhen World Exhibition and Convention Center occupies the Convention and Exhibition New Town area of Fuhai Subdistrict, Bao'an District, next to Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport. Invested in by the Shenzhen municipal government and developed and operated by a China Merchants Shekou and OCT consortium, it is regarded as a strategic platform for the city's opening-up and for the core area of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Phase one broke ground in September 2016 and opened in November 2019; at completion it was the largest exhibition centre in the world by scale, the largest single building ever built in Shenzhen, and the first project to develop a large building alongside rail, water and municipal works simultaneously. Phase one covers 1.2142 million square metres of land with 1.6005 million square metres of floor area and 400,000 square metres of indoor exhibition space in 19 halls: sixteen single-storey pillar-free standard halls of 20,000 square metres each, a 48,000-square-metre super hall suited to aviation and yacht shows, plus a 20,000-square-metre conference centre and a 20,000-square-metre event centre. Standard halls are long-span column-free volumes with a 9-by-9-metre rigging grid throughout and five tonnes per square metre floor loading for heavy machinery. The plan is fishbone-shaped, halls arranged symmetrically along a 1.75-kilometre double-deck central corridor, under a roof patterned with coloured ribbons that evoke the Maritime Silk Road. Metro Lines 12 and 20 serve Guozhan station, with 12,000 parking spaces and a truck holding area nearby.