Today is the fourth day of the first lunar month, and the 40-day Spring Festival has entered the 19th day, and it is about to pass the halfway point. In the past few days, people have been going home to visit relatives and travel during holidays, and planes, high-speed rail, trains, long-distance buses, self-driving and other travel modes have been parallel.
According to the data, from the start of the Spring Festival on January 26 to February 11, the cross-regional flow of people in the whole society exceeded 3.5 billion. On February 12, the cross-regional flow of people in the whole society exceeded 2800 million person-times, a record high for the same period in history.
This Spring Festival, the four large airports of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen all hit a new high in the flow of inbound and outbound passengers. During the Spring Festival holiday, the mutual visa exemption between China and Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand and other countries has made it a reality for both domestic and foreign tourists to enjoy policy dividends, and the "go-and-go" trip has become a reality.
The entry and exit ports of Beijing Airport ushered in the highest peak of passenger flow during the Spring Festival in recent years. From February 9th to February 12th, a total of 17 inbound and outbound passengers were handled at the Beijing Border Inspection Station10,000 person-times, a year-on-year increase of 58 times, its ** realm 970,000 people, 740,000 people. In particular, since the mutual exemption between China and Singapore on February 9, more than 5,000 Chinese citizens have been processed to leave the country to Singapore.
Haoyi, Deputy Captain of the Second Team of the Third Brigade on Duty at the Beijing Border Inspection Station: (We) open all waiting areas 15 minutes in advance during the peak passenger period, optimize the diversion and guidance of passengers, so that inbound and outbound passengers can have a fast and smooth customs clearance experience while feeling the strong flavor of the New Year.
In the first three days of the holiday, the Shanghai border inspection authorities inspected a total of 26 people entering and leaving the country90,000 passengers, 15 outbound passengers60,000 people, 1130,000 people. Among them, the total number of people entering and exiting Pudong International Airport reached 2410,000 people, an average of 80,000 people per day.
Yang Xiajie, instructor of the 10th team on duty at the Shanghai Airport Border Inspection Station of the Shanghai Border Inspection Station: The Pudong Airport port presents the characteristics of "three more" with a large number of outbound teams, a large number of family passengers, and a large proportion of children. From the perspective of outbound direction, "short-distance cross-border tours" to Hong Kong and Macao, Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia and other countries and regions are the mainstay. From the perspective of the inbound population, overseas Chinese, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots, and people who work and study abroad all the year round account for a relatively large proportion, and most of them visit relatives and friends. From the perspective of passenger flow trends, the sixth day of the Lunar New Year will usher in a wave of outbound passenger flow peak, and the peak of inbound passengers is expected to appear around the seventh and ninth days of the Lunar New Year this year.
The flow of inbound and outbound passengers has also risen sharply in Guangzhou, three days before the Spring Festival, the Guangzhou Border Inspection Station has released a total of about 10 inbound and outbound passengers80,000 people. The reporter learned that with the continuous increase of favorable policies such as visa-free exemption for "New Malaysia and Thailand", and the impact of the winter holiday and the Spring Festival, various ports in Guangzhou ushered in a "travel fever". Since the official implementation of the China-Singapore mutual exemption policy, there have been 8,793 China-Singapore entry and exit passengers at Baiyun Airport, an increase of 66% year-on-year. At the same time, many people choose port passenger transport for travel, and Guangzhou's Pazhou Hong Kong and Macao Passenger Port, Nansha Port Passenger Port, and Dongguan Passenger Port currently inspect more than 2,000 inbound and outbound passengers every day.
Lai Weiyue, Shunde Border Inspection Station, Guangzhou Border Inspection Station: Since the first day of the Lunar New Year, Shunde Passenger Port has ushered in a new wave of inbound and outbound passenger peaks, and the passenger ferry flights between Shunde and Hong Kong are close to full. Taking into account the passenger flow of Hong Kong's returnees, we have dispatched police officers who are proficient in Cantonese to provide convenient and warm customs clearance guidance, so that passengers can travel warmly and smoothly.
With the gradual active holiday travel of mainland residents, the Hong Kong holiday has entered the second half of the holiday, superimposed on the impact of factors such as the continued heat of cross-border tourism consumption and the introduction of favorable visa-free policies, from the first day of the Lunar New Year to the third day of the Lunar New Year, a total of 2.09 million people were inspected at the Shenzhen Border Inspection Station, recovering to 99% of the same period in 2019.