CCTV News: With the continuous resumption of international and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan flights, after entering the summer and autumn season of civil aviation, the number of inbound and outbound passengers has increased in a stepwise manner.
With the arrival of the summer vacation, the number of inbound and outbound flights and passengers at Beijing Airport has reached its peak this year. In July, there were 6,436 inbound and outbound flights, with 1,155,300 inbound and outbound passengers. For the first time in three years, the average number of flights exceeded 200 per day, and the number of inbound and outbound passengers exceeded 1 million for the first time in a single month.
Zhang Qiangqiang, customs officer of the Capital Airport under Beijing Customs: Since the first half of this year, the number of inbound and outbound passengers has been continuously increasing. Especially since the summer vacation, July has increased by nearly 40% compared with June, and the increase in Southeast Asian flights and European flights is even greater.
As the national summer season continues to heat up, Shanghai Pudong International Airport is full of passengers. At present, Pudong Airport has opened international passenger flights to more than 40 countries and regions, and the average daily international passenger flights in and out of the port exceeded 300 in July, an increase of 20% over the previous month.
Zhang Yi, Deputy Director of the Customs Travel Inspection Department of Pudong Airport under Shanghai Customs: Since the beginning of the summer Festival, the number of passengers entering and leaving Shanghai Port has remained at a continuous high level, and Shanghai Customs has supervised more than 1.8 million inbound and outbound passengers at Pudong Airport in July, equivalent to 55.1% of the same period in 2019.
Shenzhen Luohu Port, known as the "first port" of Shenzhen and Hong Kong, presents a busy scene of "two busy" inbound and outbound entry after entering the summer. Since July, more than 3.6 million passengers have been inspected at Luohu entry-exit border checkpoints, an average of 138,000 per day, an increase of 14% over the same period last month.
Since the summer vacation, a series of cultural activities in Shenzhen and Hong Kong have attracted many Hong Kong residents to visit Shenzhen, for entertainment and consumption. Since the resumption of customs clearance at Luohu Port on February 6 this year, more than 21.38 million people have entered and exited the country.
Zhang Chenru, customs officer of Luohu Customs under Shenzhen Customs: We have grasped the tidal changes in the flow of personnel in advance, and passengers can "clear customs in one code" through mobile phones, and the average time to pass through the turnstile is less than 5 seconds.
Source: CCTV