Shenzhen Foreign Affairs Office Service Centre is a public service institution subordinate to the Office of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Shenzhen Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China. In October, 2012, the Office of the Government Set-up Committee of Shenzhen Municipality issued the document Official Reply on Renaming of Shenzhen Foreign Reception Convoy and Government Set-up Matters (SBB Decree No. 60 [2012]), renaming Shenzhen City’s Foreign Reception Convoy (Shenzhen City Convoy for State Guests) that was founded in 1993 to Shenzhen Foreign Affairs Office Service Centre, which was officially established in April, 2013.