BEIJING, July 9, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- This is a report from China.org.cn:
Beijing's border inspection
agency logged nearly 8.3 million entry and exit trips in the first
half of this year, up 185% from the same period last year.
The increase has been attributed to the summer travel season, as
well as to continued adjustments to entry and exit policies that
facilitate travel, business, study, work, and living in
China.
The 72/144-hour visa free transit policy has been particularly
well received by foreign travelers. First implemented in 2013, the
policy has been recently expanded to allow travelers from 54
countries to transit through 20 cities like Beijing, Tianjin, and others without a visa for up to
144 hours.
In the first half of the year, 307,000 foreign travelers entered
Beijing without a visa, with
33,700 using the 144-hour visa-free transit, marking 10-fold and
seven-fold increases year on year, respectively.
China has also begun
implementing a unilateral visa-free policy for ordinary passport
holders from countries like Germany, France, Italy, the
Netherlands, Spain, and
Malaysia. This July, China extended this visa-free policy to
Australia, New Zealand, and Poland. As of July
2, nearly 163,000 foreigners from 15 countries benefited by
this policy had entered China
visa-free.
The number of tourists traveling in groups has seen a rebound in
Beijing, with over 30,000 such
tourists visiting in the first half of the year, 30 times the
number from the same period of last year.
The number of mainland residents traveling through Beijing ports increased by around 2.7 times
year on year to more than 5.74 million, accounting for about 70% of
the total traffic.
June saw record numbers of entries and exits, with a peak of
65,000 people in a single day. The total number of entries and
exits this year is expected to surpass 10 million by early
August.
Beijing logs 8.3 million
border entry, exit trips in
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