The tropical island province of Hainan in south China has seen an inbound and outbound travel peak during the three-day Qingming Festival holiday with people from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Macao Special Administrative Region and Taiwan region as well as overseas Chinese returning to their hometowns for the festival, according to the General Station of Exit and Entry Frontier Inspection of the provincial capital city of Haikou.
The Qingming Festival, or Tomb-sweeping Day, is a traditional Chinese holiday for paying tribute to the deceased, worshiping ancestors and embracing nature. The day fell on Friday this year.
"My ancestral roots are in Hainan. I come back every year for the Qingming occasion to pay respects to my ancestors. It's very convenient now, everything is quick, and the border entry procedures are very smooth," said a traveler from Singapore.
"It's very convenient now because Malaysia enjoys the visa-free entry policies. Availing myself of this opportunity, I've come to Hainan for beer and skittles with a week-long break from my country," said a traveler from Malaysia. The number of passenger entries and exits through Hainan is expected to reach 22,700 during this year's three-day Qingming holiday season running from Friday to Sunday, averaging around 7,600 per day, marking a 38.4 percent increase year on year.
The Haikou General Station of Exit and Entry Frontier Inspection has made early arrangements, deploying personnel effectively, and opening inspection channels in advance to ensure efficient and smooth customs clearance for travelers.
"We promptly release information on the dynamic flow of inbound and outbound passengers, enhance on-site service organization and closely coordinate with other inspection units, to ensure efficient and smooth customs clearance during the Qingming holiday peak, with priority given to safety and efficiency," said Li Liuqing, deputy duty team leader of the Meilan Exit and Entry Frontier Inspection Station under the Haikou General Station of Exit and Entry Frontier Inspection.
Hainan has three main airports -- the Haikou Meilan International Airport, the Sanya Phoenix International Airport and the Qionghai Boao International Airport.
Airport ports in south China's Hainan see travel peak during Qingming Festival
China's development has never been a "threat" to anyone but the source of growth advancing common development of all countries, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said at a regular press conference in Beijing on Friday.
Some Western media and think tanks are peddling so-called "China Shock 2.0," saying that "China is achieving fast development in high-tech sectors such as renewable energy and AI and relies on foreign markets to absorb its overcapacity, thus reducing the market share of developed countries and sending more serious shock waves to the global economy compared with the era of traditional manufacture industry," while there are foreign commentators saying that the "China Shock 2.0" argument ignores the genuine innovation occurring within the Chinese industrial ecosystem and that Chinese export is the exact booster of the global economy that is needed in the turbulent period and more indispensable than ever.
Commenting on that, Lin said: "From the world's factory to the world's market and innovation powerhouse, China's development is achieved through strong performance driven by innovation and brings tangible cooperation opportunities and space to the world. High-quality Chinese products represented by the 'old three' of textiles, furniture and home appliances have stabilized the global industrial and supply chain, lowered the living cost of global consumers and eased the inflationary pressure worldwide. China's green production capacity represented by the 'new three' of electric vehicles, batteries and solar panels has bridged the gap between supply and demand in global green development and bolstered the global energy transition and low-carbon development. Moreover, China's high-tech products represented by the 'new new three' of robots, AI and innovative drugs have broken high-tech barriers and monopoly and enabled people in more countries to access affordable new technologies," said the spokesman.
"Openness and cooperation bring about progress and win-win result. China's development has never been a 'threat' to anyone but the source of growth advancing common development of all countries. What really creates 'shocks' to the world has never been the innovation of Chinese companies and efficiency of Chinese industrial capacity, but protectionist moves of setting up barriers, decoupling and severing industrial and supply chains. China will stay committed to high-standard opening up, defend the multilateral trading system and provide more certainty and new impetus to the world economy with its own steady development," said Lin.
China's development never a threat: FM spokesman
