CCTV News: The State Immigration Administration issued an announcement on the 10th that from now on, the visa-free policy for ASEAN countries to enter Xishuangbanna, Yunnan will be implemented. Tour groups from 10 ASEAN countries will be organized and received by travel agencies in China with ordinary passports. They can be exempted from visa application at the Xishuangbanna Gasha International Airport Port, Mohan Railway Port, and Mohan Highway Port, and the entire tour will enter and exit the country without a visa, and the stay time will not exceed 6 days.
Under the expansion of visa-free scope, facilitation of entry visas and the superposition effect of the first "intangible cultural heritage version of the Spring Festival", inbound tourism in Yunnan continues to be popular, and foreign tourists are checking in the Chinese New Year. Three days before the Spring Festival holiday, Mohan Port ushered in a peak in entry and exit traffic, with a total of more than 13,000 people entering and exiting, a year-on-year increase of 4%. Among them, more than 2,500 foreigners from 22 countries and regions entered the country, a year-on-year increase of 15%.
With the implementation of policies such as extending the stay time of visa-free foreigners in the country to 240 hours, the convenient China high-speed rail has also become an option for more and more foreign tourists to visit China. On the G6910 train from Qingdao to Jinan east, Norway's passenger Halan was interested in studying the gameplay of Luban locks with his companion Ibrahim from Egypt who also likes the traditional Chinese architecture mortise and tenon structure.
And a traveler from Papua New Guinea is reading the bilingual version of the Analects of Confucius with his companions.
With the increase in the number of people entering the country using the new visa-free policy for transit, in order to better serve foreigners, the Wuxi Public Security Entry and Exit Management Department has formulated plans in advance and made every effort to provide customs clearance guarantee services.
