In order to promote the development of the tourism industry, the Hong Kong Tourism Council led a delegation to visit Beijing and suggested that Beijing expand the scope of visa -free scope of foreign tour groups to the visa exemption via Hong Kong to mainland China.
According to the Hong Kong Radio Radio, the chairman of the Tourism Council Xu Wang Meilun and the Legislative Council of the Tourism Council, Yao Bailiang, including Zhang Zheng, the deputy minister of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China and the Deputy Minister of Tourism in Beijing.The two sides communicated behind closed doors for about an hour.
After the meeting, the Tourism Council said that according to the recently signed by the Hong Kong government and the Ministry of Commerce of China, the Amendment Amendment of the Mainland and Hong Kong on the establishment of a more close economic and trade relations (CEPA) will be established. From March next yearEntry -free foreign travel groups can stay for 144 hours.
Since this arrangement is currently limited to Guangdong Province, the Tourism Parliament recommends that the applicability of the visa -free arrangement can be expanded to provinces outside Guangdong.
According to the Hong Kong Government's newsletters, the Hong Kong Government and the Ministry of Commerce of China signed the CEPA second revision agreement on Wednesday (October 9).The agreement relaxes the threshold for multiple Hong Kong service areas to enter the mainland market, including the film industry, television industry, tourism, telecommunications, insurance industry, construction and engineering, as well as banks and securities industries.
In terms of tourism, the agreement is optimized and implemented from a foreign tour group from Hong Kong entry into Guangdong to stay 144 -hour visa -free policy, including increasing entry ports and expanding the staying area to the entire province of Guangdong.West Kowloon Station provides convenience.
