Hong Kong and Mainland China will restore full customs clearance next Monday (February 6) to end the sealing measures for the past three years.Interviewed scholars believe that the customs clearance of Lu and Hong Kong will help Hong Kong's economic development. It is suggested that the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government cooperates with the Guangdong and Macau Government to jointly promote overseas tourists.
The Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council of China announced on Friday that from 00:00 next Monday, the people's exchanges between the mainland and Hong Kong and Macao, including the cancellation of customs clearance arrangements for the exit of the land port, the limits of no customs clearance personnel, and restoring the residents of the mainland and Hong Kong., Macau team tourism business activities.
If the people who enter the mainland of Hong Kong and Macau in the country, if there is no history of living in foreign countries or other overseas regions within seven days, there will be no need to present the test results of nucleic acid testing when entering the country.
After the Hong Kong and Macau Office of the State Council announced the customs clearance of Lu and Hong Kong, Hong Kong Chief Executive Li Jiachao immediately announced that the ports bordering Hong Kong and the mainland will be opened from next week. Citizens can travel at any time without reservation and pass at the designated period.People in the mainland do not need to test nucleic acid testing.
temporarily maintain the requirements for fast inspection requirements for overseas and Taiwan and other regions
Hong Kong will also cancel the requirements of Macau's fast inspection in Hong Kong next week and vaccination requirements for overseas immigrants.However, in response to the large number of people brought by the full customs clearance, the fast inspection requirements before overseas and Taiwan and other regions require a period of observation.
Li Jiachao pointed out that since Hong Kong and the mainland resumed the first stage of customs clearance on January 8, Hong Kong's commercial, retail, and catering "moved".After the full customs clearance of Lugang next Monday, I believe that it will boost humanistic exchanges more extensively, and the official will also promote Hong Kong from the world and the mainland in all aspects.
Official expectations, the traffic demand in Hong Kong will increase next week. At that time, coordinator will be coordinated to ensure that there is enough traffic to go to various ports, and it will also increase to the highest level of operations.If necessary, strengthen people.
The people of Lugang welcomes the full customs clearance of the two places.Among them, data from the mainland online tourism platform "Ctrip" shows that the search volume of Hong Kong and Macau as a tourist destination has increased by more than three times on Friday, of which the number of tour group products has increased by 1.8 times.Many Hong Kong citizens also said in an interview that after the full customs clearance of Lugang next Monday, they will consider traveling to the mainland.
Xu Wenwei, president of the Hong Kong Grave Estate Food Professional Society, expects that under the level of customs clearance, the Hong Kong food industry will increase by 10 % to half in the short term. By the end of this year, it is expected to return to 89 % before the epidemic.He is very optimistic about Hong Kong's tourism catering industry this year.
Cui Dingbang, the director of the Hong Kong Tourism Promotion Association, believes that the Hong Kong government cancels the vaccination requirements of overseas passengers to make Hong Kong and other Asian regions in order to help improve the competitiveness of Hong Kong.Before the level.
Ye Deping, a senior lecturer in Hong Kong Education University, pointed out in an interview with Lianhe Morning Post that the sealing of Lugang in the past three years has hindered the development of Hong Kong's economic development, and business in tourism, hotels, retail and other industries has been greatly affected.The people's livelihood and humanistic exchanges are also affected by "long -term non -customs clearance". "Taking me as an example, many academic seminars held in the Mainland have not been able to do it because of the quarantine requirements of cross -customs clearance.Portate. "
Ye Deping believes that after the two places are cleared, more mainland passengers will visit Hong Kong and enhance the confidence of mainland and overseas investors in the future of Hong Kong, which will help promote the accelerated development of the Hong Kong economy this year.
Ye Deping believes that the Hong Kong government should actively communicate with the tourism industry, formulate a plan to benefit the recovery of the industry, and allow passengers to have a better travel experience.Take advantage of the opportunity to make Hong Kong a tourist city with existing entertainment and cultural depth. "
He said that Hong Kong is back to the mainland and is the leading city of the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area. At the same time, it is necessary to cooperate with cities such as Macau, Shenzhen and other cities to formulate more "multi -day tourism planning plan", Use the overall advantages of the Greater Bay Area to attract overseas tourists.
