"Do you want to travel to China?" On the evening of November 24 last year, a chat group of Malaysian friends opened this topic.
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on the afternoon that the France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and the Malaysians held unilateral visa -free policies.A few weeks later, the official website of the Chinese Embassy in the United States issued a notice saying that from January 1 this year, the application information for American tourists to travel to China in China.On January 11, the China National Immigration Administration also launched new measures to facilitate foreigners to enter China.
Many reports analyzed that China's series of actions mainly want to stimulate the tourism industry and attract foreigners to business in China to promote economic recovery.In the past year, China's real estate market has been depressed, people's willingness to consume is low, the unemployment rate has soared, the risk of shrinkage has risen, and the economy has faced huge downlink pressure.
Since the large -scale outbreak of the crown disease in early 2020, China has been implementing a rigorous zero -epidemic zero policy. It was not until the end of 2022 that it suddenly ended and quickly opened the border.However, after half a year of reopening the border, international passengers who went to China did not do as expected.According to statistics from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the nationwide travel agencies received only 477,800 foreign tourists in the first half of last year, far lower than 8.5616 million in the first half of 2019.
There are many reasons behind this, but there are some views that as China and the West have continued, many foreign tourists are cautious about traveling to China.
Indonesian friends who work in the United States to work and often travel to Shanghai in the United States recognize this view.He said that whenever European and American colleagues around each other talks to the topic of China, they are hostile to the topic of China, and often mentioned that China has repeatedly searched the incidents of foreign consulting companies and due diligence companies operating in China last year."Many colleagues are worried about going to China on a business trip, let alone travel to China."
Friends who have studied in Beijing, have a lot of friendship with China.She missed the period of studying 10 years ago. After learning that Malaysia citizens can enter the country, they have planned to travel to China this year."China -Malaysia relations have always been good, and finally wait for visa -free!"
The relationship between the country and the country will certainly affect the development of the tourism industry.China understands this, and has "punished" those countries that are not friendly to China in diplomatic through huge market forces.However, this approach is undoubtedly killing the enemy for one thousand and damaging 800.
China and South Korea, which has been undulating in recent years, is a specific example.After the Sade incident in 2016, it was reported that China launched the so -called restrictions on Korean or ordering. Instantly, Chinese tourists on the streets of South Korea were gone. Many Korean companies evacuated the Chinese market and Korean artists were blocked outside the Chinese door; South Korea's anti -China mood was alsoThe continuous expansion, the people who learn Chinese have greatly reduced, and the result is that the deepening of each other is deepened.
At present, the competitive structure of China and the United States has not changed. The United States still implements the "small courtyard high walls" siege policy in the high -tech industry, and tries to decompose China and the world in multiple fields.However, if China can vigorously promote entry tourism, let more foreigners understand China in person, and change their perception of China, it may help break through the current geopolitical difficulties.
As the president of the China Tourism Association's Smart Tourism Branch, Xiao Qianhui said, the reduction of foreigners traveling to China means that they feel and see the current situation of China, and the opportunity to communicate with the locals will become less."Entry tourism is the people's diplomacy in the context of anti -decoupling and anti -encirclement ... There are Zhihua when they come to China, and knowing that there are pro -Huahua. You do n’t come.
Will China continue to launch measures to attract foreigners to China?This is not only related to the growth of China's economy, but also the development and improvement of China's relations with multi -countries.
