It is a two-way six-lane highway 33.1 metres wide equipped with street lighting, with a length of 122.8 km and a speed limit of 120 km/h.

The Guangshen Expressway is the major road link connecting Guangzhou, Dongguan, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong.

[3] The construction project has partially completed in the Guangzhou and Dongguan territory in January 2012 and opened to traffic.

The Guangshen Yanjiang Expressway has a total length of 97 km, and an estimated initial investment of up to 15 billion yuan.

They also set up a company called Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Zhuhai Highway Limited to invest and manage the Guangshen Expressway.

The board of directors of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Zhuhai Expressway co., Ltd. used more than a year to complete the construction drawing design, pre-construction preparations such as requisition in 1989 winter.

In February, 1991, the finance mortgage loan files has been approval by relevant departments in China and the Guangdong Provincial Committee.

The main construction and bridge project of Guangshen Expressway was completed and plan to make a temporarily test run in July 1994.

Guangshen Expressway has a full length of 122.8 km, and a speed limit of 120 km/h, and a six lane line design for both direction, street lighting system along Guangzhou, Huocun, Luogang, Xintang, and Machong, Wangniudun, Daojiao, Shigu, Houjie, Taiping, Wudianmei, Changan, Xinqiao, Fuyong, Hezhou, Baoan, Nantou, Futian and the Huanggang Port, and 20 toll stations with the interoperability type overpass; Also, the Tongle checkpoints will build near the Nantou toll stations; Meanwhile, every Hong Kong bus transporting commute to Hong Kong and Guangzhou must go by Guangshen Expressway.

In order to improve longitudinal slope and avoid soft ground sinking hidden danger, Viaduct will be adopted at rivers intensive place and thickness of mollisol more than 12 meters.

The seven navigable rivers of Dongjiang estuary and soft ground segment bridge have a length of 19.64 km.

Guangshen Expressway through Guangzhou and Shenzhen has a population of two million people in the city.

Another city between Guangzhou and Shengzhen, which is Dongguan, is known as the "world factory",[4] therefore the volume of traffic on Guangshen Expressway was huge.

Class 5 vehicle: 300 yuan On 27 January 2013, The Congress of the Guangdong Provincial proposed to cancel the GSE fees, as they think the charge on the highway for many years have been unreasonable.

Considering the poor road condition of the Guangshen Expressway,[9] prevailing slowly, and the debt long-paid.

Lin Hui said, on the two Conferences (the NPC and the CPPCC), they agreed the necessity to strengthen city-to-city cooperation between Guangzhou and Shenzhen.

Linhui recalls that in mid-2012, the charges for the highway were somewhat relieved, all the fees decreased, except for Class 1 vehicles.

She said that this year, she has no plans to propose a price reduction motion on GSE, since it is not effective by going down by 2 yuan.