Shenzhen News Network, September 30, 2021 (Reporter Luo Yu intern Liu Ting correspondent Peng Xiaorui Liu Yingxiazi) Since September, a message on the Internet has aroused many concerns: "The service area of The Gate is going to be cancelled? Where is the new service area built? This message "real hammer" up! The reporter recently interviewed and learned that the Gongmen service area will be officially closed in 2023, and the new service area - Shenzhen Shantou Service Area is located in the southwest of Ebu Town, which will be reconstructed and expanded on the original basis of the Baiyunzai Parking Area of Shenzhen-Shantou Expressway in 2022, and is expected to be completed in 2023. Guangdong Transportation Group Shenzhen-Shanxi Expressway Expansion Management Office said that in accordance with the relevant documents of expressway management, before the new service area is put into use, the Gongmen service area will still maintain normal operation, providing passengers with services such as parking, refueling and rest. Passengers passing through the service area of Gongmen have such psychological feelings: Shenzhen Shantou people: when they arrive at The Gate, they have already arrived home; Shanwei people: after passing through the Gate, they are ready to get home; Chaoshan people: after passing through the Gate, there is still half of the home; Fujian people: After passing the Gate, there is not much traffic jam! During the interview, the reporter also deeply felt that the stay of a highway service area that has been operating for more than 20 years has attracted so much attention, not only because it is a stop in the highway for rest, but also because it is a temporary rest place for tourists in eastern Guangdong and Fujian to go out to work hard, and because it is a safe place for people who go out to work the way home. The Gongmen service area is a "spiritual landmark" for travelers and is a common memory of generations. The Shenzhen-Shantou service area will open up a new travel experience for passengers. Shenzhen-Shantou West Expressway "Welcome": The new service area and new toll station will be built in 2024 The Shenzhen-Shanxi Expressway is a skeleton highway with an east-west functional expansion axis of the Shenzhen-Shantou Special Cooperation Zone (hereinafter referred to as the "Shenzhen-Shantou Cooperation Zone"), which has served the masses along the route for more than 20 years since it was completed and opened to traffic in 1996. In October 2019, the renovation and expansion project officially broke ground, and is now in full swing, and the entire line is expected to open to traffic in 2024. The Shenzhen-Shantou West Expressway Reconstruction and Expansion Project starts from Shanwei Lufeng City in the east, passes through Shanwei City, Shenzhen-Shantou Cooperation Zone, Huizhou City in the west, and finally Longgang District in Shenzhen City, with a total length of about 146 kilometers, which will upgrade the original two-way four-lane to two-way eight-lane, and the speed will be increased from the original 100 kilometers to 120 kilometers per hour. Among them, the Shenzhen-Shantou cooperation section is about 24 kilometers long, the newly built section of the rerouting section is separated from the old road, and through the cutting and straightening, it is optimized and shortened from 24 kilometers to 22.9 kilometers, bypassing areas with dense population and transportation networks, and will add interconnection entrances and exits in the Chishi area and the Ebu area. After completion, it will not only make the interconnection of expressways more perfect, but also further improve the overall efficiency and service level of the road network, but also release valuable land resources and achieve a win-win situation between road and land. According to the Shenzhen-Shantou Expressway Expansion Management Office of Guangdong Transportation Group, in order to better meet the needs of mass travel and the development of the new city, the Shenzhen-Shantou Cooperation Section of the Shenzhen-Shantou Expressway plans to build the Shenzhen-Shantou Service Area, the Shenzhen-Shantou Bay Central Station and two new toll stations (Shenzhen-Shantou City Toll Station and Shenzhen-Shantou Bay Toll Station). The project is scheduled to start construction in early 2022, and is expected to be completed and put into use before June 2023, when the Shenzhen-Shanxi Expressway will bring "one service area, one central station and two toll stations" to a new look, providing convenient travel services for the masses, and helping the livable, workable and travel-friendly Binhai New Area and the new industrial city to speed up, improve quality, improve efficiency and high-quality development. The construction and opening of the new service area is accompanied by the gradual distancing of the old service area. As the largest and most functional service area for the Pearl River Delta region of the Shenzhen-Shanxi Expressway to the east of Guangdong, the service area of Qimen is known as the "most beautiful station" by the mountains and rivers, beautiful scenery, suitable travel and happy marriage for passengers from all directions. It goes without saying that its "curtain" has touched the hearts of countless people and awakened the memories in everyone's minds. You will drift away, goodbye! In my heart, the Gongmen Service Area was officially put into operation in October 1998, covering a total area of about 250 mu, which is the first high-speed large-scale service area in eastern Guangdong. In the past 20 years, the Gongmen service area has a special presence for eastern Guangdong and Fujian, and "first" and "first" are synonymous here; it is also a "spiritual landmark" for passing travelers. In the era when there was no high-speed rail, passengers relied on self-driving or bus travel, and every time they passed through The Gate and smelled the salty and wet seawater, they knew the distance between themselves and their homes. Over the years, most tourists have taken the Shenzhen-Shanxi Expressway and are accustomed to resting in the Gongmen service area, because this is the demonstration "benchmark" of the service area in eastern Guangdong, like a commercial complex, Chinese restaurants, Western restaurants, cafes, chain fast food restaurants, convenience supermarkets, snack bars, fruit shops have everything, complete facilities. As early as ten years ago, chain brands such as McDonald's, Cat Coffee, and True Kung Fu entered the service area of Gongmen, making it a business card-like existence of Gongmen. Here, carrying the surrounding many men and women, young and old to eat McDonald's for the first time experience, 24 hours open, two-way each store of single-family design, McDonald's is now a lot, but buried in the memory, is "two-way each one" of the salmon door this family. Now to say: Goodbye, McDonald's. Two-way cat coffee is a great place to date, how many young people have met their favorite boys and girls, specially come here to drink a cup of coffee. It doesn't matter if you need to queue up for a long time on holidays, because he is with him! Now to say: goodbye, Salmon Cat Coffee! "Two-way" Real Kung Fu Chinese restaurant, for travelers to provide a variety of fast food, peak hours can provide dining services for 200 people at the same time, you can eat a clean and delicious meal at the doorstep. Now I have to say: Goodbye, Gongmen real kung fu! The beef cakes and ham sausages sold by uncles and aunts at the entrance of the service area have become the first choice for passing passengers to "pad their stomachs"; there are also delicious food such as Lao Gongjia beef noodles, Chaoshan style snacks, Zhengxin chicken steak, projectile sweets and so on... Do you remember? The glimpse of the fish gate is picturesque, and the drunken seafood is intoxicating in Guangdong, so there is a good talk of "eating seafood, walking the fish gate", that is a word: fresh! The Service Area of Gongmen is not only a "spiritual landmark" for past tourists to stop, but also the starting point for tourists who come to visit Shenzhen: eat a seafood dinner, buy a cup of Gongmen specialties with double-headed tips to quench their thirst, find a food stall to drink seafood porridge... Before you know it, you'll make the next trip. Along Tonggang Road into a specialty street, The Salmon Gate Mazai, The Gongmen Hair Dumplings, the Gongmen Shrimp Cake, the Gongmen Double Cake, and the famous seafood "Gift Three Treasures": Dried Squid, Dried Shrimp, Dried Yaozhu and so on are dizzying. I don't want anything else in my head except for the loop "buy buy buy"! In the alley opposite the entrance of the Gate Comprehensive Market, there is a century-old brand called Wenli Cake Shop, the great-grandchildren have been handed down for 4 generations of handmade cakes for a hundred years, the style is not complicated, the taste is authentic and mellow, which is the inheritance of traditional craftsmanship, and it is the purest taste of childhood. What you see is tradition, and what you enter is time. At the Gongmen Wharf, hundreds of fishing boats docked neatly quite spectacularly, and near the afternoon harvest time, the fishing boats returning from fishing docked on the shore, dozens of live fish, shrimp, crabs and shellfish came ashore, at this moment, the fish merchants were scrambling to quote one after another, and the crowds were surging and the dark-skinned fishermen were full of bright smiles, and the happiness was gained. See the picturesque scenery along the coast, immerse yourself in the tranquil fireworks of the world. Bai'an Village, Located in the "Five Lights and Ten Colors" Urban And Rural Demonstration Belt of the Shenzhen-Shantou Cooperation Zone, the Bai'an Beach Tourism Demonstration Belt. Bai'an means "a hundred industries to be revitalized, Pepsi safe", The Bai'an Peninsula is surrounded by mountains on three sides, blue sea and blue sky, villagers have been fishing for a living for generations, like a paradise, after the full promotion of rural revitalization, here has become a punching point for tourists and Internet celebrities. Everyone has their own "Penghu Bay", sunshine and beach waves cactus, and an old captain. At the Gate, these images can be seen from the bottom of the eye. The endless service area of The Gate, let us say goodbye to the rise of a new city in this way, which will inevitably be accompanied by the iterative upgrading of supporting facilities. This is the end of the Gongmen service area, and the launch of the Shenzhen Shantou service area is also the same. The service area of the Gate will be a farewell to many deceased people who are far away from home, but time will not dilute our memories. Welcome everyone to come to The Gate to see the sea, look for food, and take a final group photo with the Gongmen Service Area during the National Day holiday. When I feel the flowers splash tears, I hate the birds and be frightened. At this moment, the reporter specially collected and sorted out some passengers' feelings about the imminent end of the Gongmen service area: bid farewell to the Gongmen service area and look forward to the Shenzhen Shantou service area. Looking forward to 2023, brand-new buildings, convenient new energy charging piles, spacious parking areas waiting for visitors from all over the world, "one-stop" leisure, tourism, shopping, catering, so that tourists can sweep away the fatigue of the journey, "beautiful highway" construction "dress up" journey, road network service level continues to improve, adding color to the global travel of the Shenzhen-Shantou Cooperation Zone.