China’s cross-border travel hits 3-year high as Hong Kong and Macau checkpoints open fully
- 676,000 cross-border trips on February 6 mark fresh post-pandemic record since January 8, when zero-Covid border controls were first eased
- Chinese group tours resume to 20 destinations worldwide, but the US, Japan and South Korea are not on the list
As many as 676,000 cross-border trips were made on February 6, official data showed, an uptick of nearly 33 per cent from the previous day’s total.
The total also beat the previous record for single-day travel since quarantine-free visits to mainland China were resumed earlier this year, after nearly three years of strict border controls under Beijing’s “zero-Covid” policy.
However, it was still just over a third of the average daily cross-border travel volume until the pandemic hit in early 2020.
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Travellers praise restriction-free movement as last closed Hong Kong-mainland China borders reopen
Monday’s figures, released by the National Immigration Administration, came as mainland China fully opened its Hong Kong and Macau borders – scrapping the daily quotas and PCR test requirements in place since its first post-Covid border reopening on January 8.
