London to Shenzhen, China from £536

This deal vs. typical deal price for this route — verified 23 May 2026 at 20:01 UTC

Bag Type	Dimensions / Weight	Included
👜 Personal Item	Small bag / laptop	✅ Yes
🎒 Cabin Bag	8 kg	✅ Yes
🧳 Checked Bag	1 × 23 kg	✅ Yes

On the same 27 Sep – 12 Oct dates, Air China has a 1-stop option out of London Gatwick (LGW) via Beijing Capital (PEK) for £478 — also with 1 × 23 kg checked bag included. The layovers are comfortable in both directions (2h 15m outbound, 2h 25m return) and the total journey takes 15h 50m out / 16h 35m back. Check the £478 LGW fare on Skyscanner →

🌍 About Shenzhen

Shenzhen is the closest thing the world has to a city built from scratch — a sleepy fishing village in 1979, today a megacity of 17 million and China's Silicon Valley. The fishing-boat past is gone; in its place rise the Ping An Finance Center (the fourth tallest building on Earth) and a forest of LED-lit towers that looks like tomorrow's skyline already happened. The pilgrimage for any tech visitor is Huaqiangbei, the world's largest electronics market — six city blocks of stacked stalls selling components, prototypes, and finished gadgets straight off the Pearl River Delta assembly lines. Beyond the hardware, Shenzhen has a real creative side: OCT-LOFT's warehouse-galleries and indie cafés, Dafen Village where thousands of painters churn out hand-copied Van Goghs and Monets for export, and theme parks like Window of the World — miniature Eiffel Tower, Pyramids, and Big Ben on the same campus. Hong Kong sits a 14-minute high-speed train ride away via Futian station, so many travelers combine both cities on one trip; UK and EU passports get 30 days visa-free entry into China as of 2025.