BEIJING, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) — With the newest rest and extension of its immigration insurance policies, China is predicted to grow to be a well-liked vacation spot for overseas vacationers this upcoming New Year vacation.
The variety of inbound and outbound passengers will attain 2.05 million per day in the course of the New Year vacation in China, up 18.8 % yr on yr, because the National Immigration Administration has forecast. Peak hours are anticipated to happen primarily on the night of Dec. 31, 2024 and Jan. 1, 2025.
During the vacation, 4 main airports in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu are anticipated to deal with almost 200,000 worldwide passengers per day.
Earlier this month, China introduced a big rest of its visa-free transit coverage, extending the permitted keep for eligible overseas vacationers from the preliminary 72 hours and subsequent 144 hours to 240 hours, or 10 days.
Under the up to date coverage, eligible residents from 54 nations can enter China visa-free when transiting to a 3rd nation or area. These vacationers might enter via any of the 60 ports throughout 24 provinces, autonomous areas and municipalities and keep throughout the designated areas for as much as 240 hours.
Besides, China has carried out an entire mutual visa exemption for 26 nations and issued a unilateral visa-free coverage for 38 nations.
“This is my second visit to China. In the past, I had to go through visa and other formalities before I could come here. With this new policy, it is becoming more and more convenient to come to China,” stated Beschetnov Stanislav from Russia. Upon touchdown on the Shanghai Pudong International Airport, he deliberate to make use of the visa-free transit coverage to take his household to the Bund, Nanjing Road, and different scenic spots within the metropolis.
According to the statistics of Shanghai General Station of Immigration Inspection, from Dec. 17 to 24, the station issued 240-hour non permanent entry permits to just about 1,000 foreigners. The high 5 nations are Russia, the United States, Britain, Sweden and Canada.
“We are on a five-day vacation in Shanghai this time. It is more convenient to come to China now, taking just over an hour to fly here, without complicated procedures or costs of a visa application,” stated Lim Seung-hwan from the Republic of Korea (ROK).
Since China prolonged its visa-free coverage to ROK and Japan final month, 11,000 passenger flights between Shanghai and the 2 nations and 363,000 ROK and Japanese vacationers have been logged at Shanghai General Station of Immigration Inspection. The passenger quantity elevated by greater than 20 % in contrast with the identical interval from September to October.
In the meantime, the southern Chinese island province of Hainan has all the time loved the most effective visa-free entry coverage in China. Since the start of this yr, greater than 350,000 overseas vacationers have entered Hainan visa-free, a year-on-year improve of greater than thrice, accounting for 85 % of the overseas vacationers visiting the tropical island.
Visa-free entry has grow to be the principle manner for foreigners to enter Hainan.
The Mohan railway port in southwest China’s Yunnan Province, an necessary gateway on the China-Laos Railway that entered operation in April of 2023, has welcomed over 33,000 overseas vacationers this yr, a year-on-year improve of 99.5 %, together with over 9,500 visa-free entries, a rise of ten occasions from final yr.
China recorded almost 29.22 million inbound overseas visits between January and November 2024, up 86.2 % yr on yr. Of these, 17.45 million entered the nation visa-free, marking a big 123.3 % year-on-year development.