Xishuangbanna, March 3, CCTV News On March 1, China and Thailand signed an agreement on mutual visa exemption for ordinary passport holders, which officially came into effect. Citizens holding ordinary passports of both sides can enter each other without a visa to engage in private affairs such as tourism, family visits, and business, and the number of days of stay shall not exceed 30 days.
At about 13 o'clock on the same day, a group of 6 Thai tourists organized by the Xishuangbanna branch of the international travel agency arrived at the Mohan Railway Port, and the police on duty at the Mohan Border Inspection Station took the initiative to dock and actively preach the visa-free policy to the passengers, and handled the visa-free entry procedures for the batch of passengers efficiently and quickly, and the 6 tourists became the first batch of Thai tourists to enjoy the visa-free policy. On the first day of visa exemption, 210 passengers entered and exited Thailand were inspected and released at the Mohan Border Inspection Station, a year-on-year increase of 200%. Since the beginning of this year, the station has checked a total of 6,048 Thai passengers, a year-on-year increase of 46 times.
Explain the visa-free policy to passengers (courtesy of Mohan Border Inspection Station).
After the implementation of the visa-free policy, it is much easier for Thai tour groups to enter China. In the past, our guests had to get off the train and go to the port to apply for a visa on arrival, but now they can directly enter China by train on the China-Laos Railway. At the same time, it has greatly reduced the travel cost of Thai tourists and facilitated the overseas Chinese in Thailand to visit relatives and friends in China. Yubo, a tour guide of the Xishuangbanna branch of Yunnan International Travel Service, said.
China and Thailand are important sources and destinations for each other's tourism markets, and Mohan Port, as a state-level land port with the largest number of Thai tourists entering and leaving Yunnan Province, will usher in a wave of Chinese tourists leaving Thailand and Thai tourists entering China with the introduction of the visa-free policy. Zhong Gui, deputy director of Mohan Border Inspection Station, said. Since China and Thailand announced the signing of the mutual visa exemption agreement, the Mohan border inspection station has taken the initiative to organize the police to conscientiously convey the content of the learning agreement, scientifically adjust the service, reasonably arrange the police force, adopt the tidal inspection mode, scientifically switch the "serpentine" and "straight" waiting facilities, open the full travel inspection channel, increase the tour group channel, open the online declaration of the tour group, increase the professional inspector in Thai as an off-stage guide, fill in the "Alien Entry Card" in advance and shoot and produce the "Alien Entry Card" bilingual teaching**, Vigorously strengthen coordination and contact with customs, port visa and other departments, timely announce the real-time flow of ports, effectively guide passengers to travel off-peak, create a professional, safe and fast customs clearance environment for all countries, and make every effort to improve the efficiency of port customs clearance. (Reporter Wei Wenqing, correspondent Lei Yu, Huang Yuanfei, Zhong Tao).
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