(Shenzhen APEC) Mayor of Shenzhen: Sincerely thank citizens and friends for their understanding and support

China News Service, Shenzhen, November 14 (Reporter Cheng Jingwei) "Here, on behalf of the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to citizens and friends for their understanding and support." Li Yun, deputy leader of the Guangdong Provincial Preparatory Leading Group for the APEC meeting and Shenzhen Mayor, said on the 14th.

On the same day, the 2026 APEC Leaders’ Meeting Week News Center held a special briefing for Chinese and foreign media in Guangdong Province and Shenzhen City to introduce Guangdong and Shenzhen’s preparations and service guarantees for the APEC meeting, as well as economic and social development and expansion of high-level opening up to the outside world. This is also the first briefing held at the 2026 APEC Leaders’ Meeting Week Press Center.

Li Yun said at the meeting that Shenzhen has always regarded hosting the APEC meeting as the top priority of the city's work. It has quickly established a city preparatory work leading group, set up special teams and on-site execution teams, refined and sorted out work tasks, and strived to make all preparatory work solid, detailed and in place. Carefully ensure urban operation, implement policies flexibly, continue to improve the level of refinement of urban governance, and strengthen transportation, electricity, communications, hotel accommodation and other guarantees.

Li Yun said that Shenzhen, while hosting conferences well, would minimize the impact on citizens’ production and life. Taking transportation security as an example, Shenzhen encourages citizens to work flexibly and travel green during the conference, so as to create a smooth travel environment for the event. Businesses and citizens have responded actively and participated enthusiastically. More than 1.5 million car owners have applied for green travel, and a large number of enterprises and institutions have responded to the flexible work arrangement initiative.

In response to the specific needs of citizens for green travel, Shenzhen has made every effort to strengthen public transportation capacity. During the meeting, the city's subway and bus fares were discounted by 50%; subway frequency was increased, operation hours were extended, and the driving interval of some subway lines was shortened to 2 minutes; 56 new bus and subway connection lines were added, and bus transportation capacity was increased by 20%. These measures are expected to effectively meet the travel needs of citizens.