Cross-border journey will get enhance from new insurance policies

Officers stated on Friday that China’s optimized immigration insurance policies are accelerating the restoration of cross-border enterprise and exchanges, and refuted groundless criticism of the nation’s anti-epidemic achievements.

Because the optimized immigration administration coverage took impact on Jan 8, the variety of individuals coming into and leaving the nation has proven regular development and orderly restoration, Liu Haitao, director-general of the Division of Frontier Inspection and Administration of the Nationwide Immigration Administration, stated at a information convention in Beijing.

From Jan 8 to 12, immigration authorities nationwide handled 490,000 individuals coming into and leaving the nation every day, up 48.9 % earlier than the implementation of the brand new insurance policies.

Liu stated that with the method of the Spring Pageant vacation, and the ensuing rise within the variety of individuals coming into and leaving the nation, the administration has taken steps to make sure that Chinese language residents queue for customs clearance for not more than half-hour.

As well as, work associated to visa purposes and journey endorsement purposes to go to Hong Kong and Macao has been restored, and there was a pointy improve within the variety of associated purposes.

“Lately, some nations have imposed restrictions on Chinese language vacationers. We additionally remind individuals to know the entry insurance policies of related nations prematurely, and make cheap journey preparations in an effort to keep away from inconvenience and pointless losses,” he stated.

Kong Fanwei, deputy director of the Civil Aviation Administration of China’s flight requirements division, stated on the information convention that the CAAC has additionally actively adjusted industry-related insurance policies primarily based on the precise state of affairs, such because the variety of flights, routes and cargo components, to make sure the regular resumption of worldwide passenger flights, and worldwide flights are on the rise.

In response to Kong, the variety of pre-planned worldwide passenger flights this week was 563, with flights to 63 nations, returning to six % and 87.5 % of pre-pandemic ranges, respectively.

“Within the coming interval, with additional elevated demand within the worldwide aviation market, it’s anticipated that worldwide air transport will proceed to keep up a gradual restoration,” Kong stated.

In the meantime, Mi Feng, a spokesman for the Nationwide Well being Fee, refuted false studies that unfold misinformation about China’s work in combating the epidemic.

Mi stated China took agency public well being intervention measures towards the unique virulent pressure within the early days of the outbreak, successful treasured time for the worldwide neighborhood to struggle the epidemic.

“China has actively shared epidemic data and offered a scientific foundation for the worldwide neighborhood’s epidemic prevention and management, in addition to analysis and improvement of vaccines and testing reagents,” he stated.

He stated that China has shared its expertise with out reservation. It has offered a whole bunch of billions of anti-epidemic provides to 153 nations and 15 worldwide organizations, and collectively held greater than 300 epidemic prevention and management and medical remedy conferences with greater than 180 nations and areas and greater than 10 worldwide organizations. China has additionally despatched 37 medical groups to 34 nations and equipped greater than 2.2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines to greater than 120 nations and worldwide organizations.

“The accusations made by sure nations towards China are completely unscientific and groundless,” stated Wu Xi, director of the division of consular affairs of the Overseas Ministry.

Because the begin of the pandemic, China has been sharing related data and knowledge with the worldwide neighborhood in an open, clear and accountable method, together with genetic knowledge on latest COVID-19 infections in China, she stated.

In response to a report launched by the World Well being Group on Jan 4, genetic knowledge offered by the Nationwide Well being Fee confirmed that the present virus pressure in China is in keeping with the genetic sequence of the virus in Chinese language passengers submitted by different nations, and no new variants or vital mutations have been discovered.