News from CCTV: As China's visa-free policy continues to be optimized, the topic of "next stop, China" has become popular again, and more and more foreign friends are looking forward to a "say-go" Just leave” trip to China. The reporter learned from the Beijing Border Inspection Station that in 2024, the number of entry and exit personnel at Beijing ports reached 18.27 million, and more than 110,000 entry and exit flights were handled, a year-on-year increase of 90% and 76% respectively. Among them, 4.84 million foreigners entered and exited the country throughout the year, a year-on-year increase of approximately 125%.
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In 2024, Beijing ports handled visa-free entry for a total of 920,000 foreigners, and issued 144-hour and 240-hour temporary entry permits to 64,000 foreign passengers who met the entry conditions, which were 4.9 times and 2.2 times respectively in the same period last year. Driven by the new policy, inbound tourism at Beijing Port continues to be popular. According to statistics, from December 20 to 31, 2024, the number of foreigners entering Beijing Port reached 108,000, a month-on-month increase of 43%, which was 1.7 times that of the same period last year.
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In 2024, the cumulative number of entry and exit personnel at Shanghai ports will reach more than 36 million, an increase of 85% compared with 2023. As the benefits of the visa-free policy continue to be released, the number of foreigners entering and exiting Shanghai ports without visas will reach 1.67 million in 2024, 4.7 times that of 2023; the total number of entry-exit personnel at Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport in 2024 will exceed 1.9 million. The number of foreigners entering the country hit a record high, exceeding 220,000, exceeding the total number of foreigners entering the country in 2019.
At the beginning of the new year, Shandong Yantai Port welcomes the first batch of visa-free entry to South Korea in 2025. On January 1, more than 300 Korean tourists took the Xinxiang Snow Lantern to Yantai to start their journey to the Wonderland Coast. They are expected to stay in China for three days and plan to visit Yantai and Weihai in Shandong.
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Facing the first light of the New Year in 2025, this 26-person Thai tourist group chose to come to Wuzhen, a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, as their first stop. They also became the first group of overseas tourists to arrive in Wuzhen on New Year's Day in 2025. For the convenience of overseas tourists, every sign in the scenic spot is equipped with Chinese and English annotations. In addition to arranging full-time English tour guides, full-time service tour guides in Thai and Japanese are also launched.
In order to ensure the implementation of various favorable entry-exit policies, major border inspection stations continue to improve supporting measures. Let foreign tourists feel the convenience and beauty of China at the first stop of entry.
The National Immigration Administration released data on January 2. During this year’s New Year’s Day holiday, border inspection agencies across the country protected a total of 1.803 million Chinese and foreign personnel entering and leaving the country, an increase of 13.7% over the same period last year. Mainland residents, residents of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and foreigners The number of people entering and exiting increased by 11.1%, 12.8% and 33.6% respectively compared with the same period last year.
