With the implementation of the mainland's 144-hour visa-free policy, more and more foreigners have begun to "open their eyes to China", and for a while, the land of China is "full" of foreigners!
There are even quite a few young people abroad who are determined to "travel all over China" in six days in the form of special forces, but the fact is that they have not even traveled half of China in six days.
And foreigners who haven't played enough have obvious "sequelae" after returning to China, that is, "obsessed" about China.
So why did the 144-hour visa-free policy, which has been proposed and implemented for nearly a decade, attract so many foreign tourists this year?
Why are these foreign tourists so impressed by Chinese tours?
1. "China travel" exploded on Tik Tok
After entering the customs, there is a great Confucianism to argue for me! The 144-hour visa-free exemption makes foreigners the strongest wild spokesperson in China.
Foreigners who come to China to travel can take a video on the street in China and post it on Tik Tok to have a good traffic income.
It can be said that as long as the topic of "China travel" is brought in, this video will definitely attract audience discussion.
The comment area is a praise for China, in the eyes of foreigners, China is not bad.
Is China really that good? With these questions in mind, many foreign tourists set foot on Chinese soil. For a while, these foreigners seemed to have found the traffic password and came to China for "special forces tourism".
And the reason why these videos have such good traffic is nothing more than one reason, that is, "incredible":
The rumored China is incredible compared to the real China, the Chinese culture is incredible compared to foreign cultures, and the development of China is incredible compared to foreign development.
In the past, foreigners were misled by the Western media, and their impression of China was long stuck in negative news such as "poor, backward, dirty, and messy".
Now foreigners who have come to China suddenly find that China has long been "reborn".
Whether it's a high-rise neon building, a magnificent cultural monument, or a beautiful natural scenery.
From the convenient and fast means of travel to the clean and wide road surface, all of these are shocking to foreigners.
Here we really can't help but be proud of our strong motherland, how difficult it was for us in the past, the older generation knows, even the generation of parents still can't eat, but in our generation has begun to pursue "dietary diversification, nutrition".
It took us the youth of a generation to go through the development process of the West in the past 100 years, how can it not be considered powerful?
Especially in the past few years, our rapid development is the degree to which our own people are shocked when they see it, from the initial scanning code payment, to fingerprint payment, face payment.
Even young people who are not paying attention will have the feeling that they cannot keep up with the times. Not to mention the foreigners who have always had multiple "misunderstandings" about us.
Nowadays, foreigners really enter China and understand China through the "Chinese-style" Yilin. This is undoubtedly a good thing for us to benefit the country and the people.
It is worth noting that the explosion of "China travel" is inseparable from one of the most important factors, that is, the 144-hour visa-free policy.
2. 144-hour visa-free policy
The so-called 144-hour visa-free policy refers to the preferential treatment unilaterally granted by the mainland to countries that join this policy, and its citizens can enter and stay for 144 hours (six days) without applying for a visa.
In fact, as early as 2016, the mainland had already proposed a 144-hour transit visa, and in 2018, it began to apply online.
It's just that at that time, it was mainly to serve the economic development of coastal cities. Today, the continent has opened up this policy to 54 countries around the world.
The pandemic in 2020 brought global travel to a standstill. Until last year, from the first half of the "special forces into Zibo to bake" to the second half of the "Harbin angry pet little potato".
After that, the provinces of cultural tourism are full of means, desperately trying to attract tourists. In 2023, the development of domestic tourism can be said to be soaring.
However, who would have thought that when the war of cultural tourism in various provinces in China was in full swing, Henan set its sights on foreign countries.
In June this year, the Henan provincial government announced at a press conference that it would "accelerate the implementation of the 144-hour visa-free policy for transit personnel".
This news can be said to have given the national cultural tourism a slap in the face. The 144-hour visa-free policy is simply a naked conspiracy.
In order to spoil the children, Harbin had to cut the frozen pears into flowers and put them on the plate, and Henan netizens even offered a "beauty trick" to "seduce" tourists.
It's just because it's all our own family. Although there are slight differences in local customs, it is obviously not enough to attract a large number of tourists for a long time.
What's more, most of our main tourism forces are student parties with a living allowance of 1,000 and migrant workers with a monthly income of 3,000. Naturally, the spending power is incomparable to that of foreigners who travel across borders.
For example, most domestic tourists are rarely willing to spend a lot of money to buy things in scenic spots, because "scenic things are expensive".
But foreigners don't think so, they buy dozens of them in the scenic spot, and the shape is quite Chinese-style, and in fact, the drink with an average taste will feel that it is really worth it.
Foreigners don't know about China, and they used to have to work hard, but now if you give him a bowl of authentic Beijing bean juice, he will also give him a thumbs up and say "oh my god!" ”
More importantly, in recent years, we have been promoting that Chinese culture should "go abroad", and more and more foreigners have been infected by the unique Chinese culture.
Coupled with the deepening of economic globalization and the advent of the Internet age, the unpopular methods of certain Western media in the past have been unable to blind the eyes of the people of the world. Many foreigners have always wanted to come to China to experience it.
Nowadays, the combination of the visa-free policy and Tik Tok is simply an excellent time to catch up with the "right time, place and people", and the two cooperate with each other, which is simply like a divine help.
Not to mention that the end of the universe is the establishment, the person who can eat the national meal is extraordinary, and the person who took the lead in proposing the 144-hour entry visa exemption is simply a talent. I'll give you a six-minute trial first, and you're not happy to read it? Sorry then, let's pay for it!
3. Never forget it after returning home
In fact, in just six days, in the face of 5,000 years of Chinese culture and 9.6 million square kilometers of China's land, even "special forces-style tourism" is really not enough.
So after a short six-day trip to China, many people who can't travel to China again begin to "quit" and watch the interesting videos shared by those bloggers who travel to China again, but this "quenching thirst" is of course in vain.
Everything in China makes foreigners who return to China "think about it day and night". The first is an extremely "dangerous" night in China, and of course this danger is not the other.
There is nothing more envy of foreigners in China than a safe social environment. Abroad, even in the first-tier cities of developed countries, the night is full of unknown dangers.
Homeless people lying everywhere on the streets, as well as gangsters of unknown gangs, plus the "legalization of marijuana" in several Western countries in recent years. It is conceivable how "demons dance" on the streets of foreign countries at night.
Foreigners who came to China looked at the brightly lit snack streets and fell into deep thought, and the most dangerous thing at the moment was the wallets in large pockets and the increasing weight.
Let's put it this way, there is no Chinese food that foreigners can resist, and there is not a foreigner who claims to have eaten all over China in four months, but it has been four years and he has not left Chengdu, Sichuan.
The second is the Chinese travel that has amazed countless foreigners.
The "little electric donkey" that can be used by scanning the code is convenient and environmentally friendly, and the online car-hailing that can be called by a mobile phone is many times cleaner than the New York subway. The most powerful is the world's most stable and fast Chinese high-speed railway.
Finally, we are proud of mobile payment, foreigners never expected that a mobile phone would be used by Chinese "vividly".
It can only be said that six days is not enough for foreigners to play at all, so many "smart foreigners" start to "get bugs" without a teacher.
After 144 hours in China, stay in a nearby country for a few days and then return to China for the next 144 hours.
If you don't say that we are good neighbors, we don't forget to bring some soup to our neighbors while eating meat.
IV. Conclusion
In fact, the explosion of China's inbound tourism is not only a benefit to us to create huge foreign exchange gains, but more importantly, it has greatly changed the image of China that has been slandered and smeared by foreign media.
Obviously, this has played a very positive role in the mainland's going out to seek development in the future, and in the future, whatever the "Smecta" next door says will be his, and foreigners will help us defend who is the "father" in the end.
Of course, in the face of the influx of foreigners, we should not lose the sense of vigilance, a few days ago there was not a foreigner on the plane secretly photographed the military airport, fortunately the mainland passengers found and reported in time.
At the same time, it is important to know that our country is not vegetarian, and we open our doors to friendly tourists, and we can also do "if the jackal comes, it will be greeted with a shotgun".
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2. China News Network2024-04-30: Foreigners become Chinese tourist special forces to travel to China visa-free for 144 hours!
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