Official announcement! Full customs clearance in Hong Kong from February 6! 500000 Hong Kong tickets are free!

From February 6th, the exchanges between the Mainland and Hong Kong and Macao will be fully resumed!

In order to provide greater convenience for personnel exchanges between the Mainland and Hong Kong and Macao, in accordance with the relevant spirit of the "Notice on Printing and Distributing the Overall Plan for the Implementation of" Class B Management "for Novel Coronavirus Infection" (Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism Comprehensive [2022] No. 144), it is now decided to further optimize the measures for personnel exchanges between the Mainland and Hong Kong and Macao, which will be implemented at 0:00 on February 6, 2023, and the relevant matters are notified as follows:

1. the full resumption of personnel exchanges between the Mainland and Hong Kong and Macao.

Cancellation of customs clearance arrangements through Guangdong-Hong Kong land ports, no quota for customs clearance personnel. Resume the tourism business activities of mainland residents and Hong Kong and Macau teams.

2. remote detection.

Those who enter Hong Kong and Macau, if they have no history of living in foreign countries or other overseas regions within 7 days, they do not need to enter the country based on the negative results of the nucleic acid test for the new coronavirus virus infection before the trip; if they have a history of living in foreign countries or other overseas regions within 7 days, the Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Region The government checks the negative certificate of the nucleic acid test for the new coronavirus virus infection 48 hours before the trip, and those who are negative will be released into the mainland (infants and young children under 3 years old can be exempted. Cross-border passenger carriers inform passengers of the above nucleic acid testing requirements when selling tickets.

3. entry quarantine.

After arriving at the port, the entry personnel from Hong Kong and Macau will complete the necessary customs clearance procedures with the customs health declaration code. If the health declaration is normal and there is no abnormality in the routine quarantine at the customs port, it can be released into the society. Persons with abnormal health declaration or symptoms such as fever shall be tested by the customs. If the test result is positive, after entering the country, the home, residence isolation or medical treatment shall be carried out as required. If the result is negative, the customs shall implement routine quarantine in accordance with the the People's Republic of China Frontier Health and Quarantine Law and other laws and regulations. Compliance with territorial epidemic prevention and control requirements after entry.

4. port operation.

In order to ensure the safety, order and smoothness of personnel clearance and cross-border passenger transport, and to further improve the experience of personnel exchanges, port inspection departments and cross-border passenger transport carriers have strengthened organization, coordination and dynamic dispatching, so that the ports adjacent to Hong Kong and Macao in the mainland should be fully opened, customs clearance facilitation measures should be exhausted, and cross-border direct road passenger transport and railway, waterway and air passenger transport capacity between the mainland and Hong Kong and Macao should be fully utilized.

Hong Kong to Send 500000 Air Tickets to Welcome Global Tourists

The Hong Kong Airport Authority announced on the 2nd that the "Flying to the World" ticket gift program sponsored by it will be launched on March 1. The scheme will send about 500000 free tickets to passengers in major passenger transport markets in response to the "Hello, Hong Kong!" by the HKSAR government!" Global publicity activities and accelerate the recovery of aviation and tourism. The ticket gift scheme will be launched in the Southeast Asian market from March 1, and then will be carried out in mainland China, Northeast Asia and other markets for about six months. Airlines will launch marketing and publicity activities at the end of February.

According to reports, most of the 500000 tickets are delivered by three Hong Kong local airlines (Cathay Pacific, Hong Kong Express and Hong Kong Airlines) in major passenger transport markets in stages through their respective channels. Visitors to Hong Kong who receive free air tickets can also enjoy special discounts such as hotel accommodation, shopping and entertainment provided by business partners participating in the publicity activities.

In addition, in the summer of 2023, the AA will distribute another 80000 air tickets to Hong Kong citizens to welcome them to travel; air tickets will also be presented to residents of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. The relevant arrangements will be announced by the airlines at that time. It is expected that more than 700000 tickets will eventually be sent out.