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G94 Pearl River Delta Ring Expressway

beltway connecting Hong Kong and Macau SARs, and cities near Zhujiangkou in Guangdong

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2025
Entity authorityQ594813 ↗
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The Pearl River Delta Ring Expressway (Chinese: 珠三角环线高速), officially the Pearl River Delta Region Ring Expressway (Chinese: 珠江三角洲地区环线高速公路) and designated G94, is an expressway in China, envisioned to encircle the Pearl River Delta region of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau. When complete, it will be 456 km (283 mi) in length. It only starts from Longhua District in Shenzhen and ends at North Lantau in Hong Kong.

Currently, only sections between Zhuhai and Sanshui District and from Zengcheng to Shenzhen are complete, entirely in the province of Guangdong.

The expressway ends at Meiguan Road and Beihuan Boulevard in Shenzhen, which is not near the border. Motorists must continue south along Huanggang Road to the Huanggang Port. There are no plans to connect the expressway directly to the border.

In Hong Kong, there are no plans to connect an expressway to the Shenzhen border. Hong Kong is not required to comply because it has its own highway system. Similarly, Macau is not required to comply and it is unknown if the Hong Kong and Macau sections will actually be expressways.

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