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Sino-Thai visa-free drive regional tourism boom!Mohan Port Thai tourist inspection volume increased by 750% month-on-month

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Tomorrow (April 13) is the first anniversary of the opening of the international passenger train of the China-Laos Railway.

Sino-Thai visa-free drive regional tourism boom!Mohan Port Thai tourist inspection volume increased by 750% month-on-month

Yu Nandie is a Dai girl born and raised in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, and has been working as a tour guide in her hometown for 8 years after graduating from university with a major in Thai. Due to its geographical proximity and personal proximity with Laos, Thailand and other countries, Xishuangbanna has become one of the most popular tourist cities along the China-Laos Railway since the opening of the international passenger train of the China-Laos Railway.

Sino-Thai visa-free drive regional tourism boom!Mohan Port Thai tourist inspection volume increased by 750% month-on-month

Yunnan Xishuangbanna tour guide Yu Nandie: Since March 1, China and Thailand have been exempted from visas, and many Thais have come to Yunnan.

Sino-Thai visa-free drive regional tourism boom!Mohan Port Thai tourist inspection volume increased by 750% month-on-month

As of the end of March this year, the cumulative number of international passenger trains on the China-Laos Railway has exceeded 700, sending a total of 180,000 cross-border passengers, of which passengers from Laos, Thailand, Malaysia and other countries are more concentrated. According to data from the Xishuangbanna Entry-Exit Border Inspection Station, on March 1 this year, within a month after the China-Thailand mutual visa exemption agreement came into effect, 629 Thai passengers were inspected and released at the Mohan Port of the China-Laos Railway in March. The month-on-month increase in inspection volume reached 750%.

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