Study of Land Use and Land Cover Changes in the Baoan District, Shenzhen from 2000 to 2010

(accounting for 37% of the total land area of Shenzhen ), with a coastline length of 30.62 km. It is connected to the Pearl River estuary in the west, the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone in the south, Dongguan City in the north, and Mirs Bay in the east, near the New Territories and Yuen Long areas of Hong Kong. Baoan is located in south of the Tropic of Cancer and has a subtropical oceanic climate-mild with plenty of sunshine, an average annual temperature of 22 °C, and an annual average precipitation of 1667 mm. The Baoan District has complex terrain, with low hills mainly in the northeast, hills and table I and in the central and northern areas, and mainly alluvial plains and some hilly remnants in the west, while the southwest coast is mostly muddy shoreline, with rich ocean beach resources.