A single face scan is all it takes for travelers to clear customs at the redeveloped Huanggang Port, where facial recognition technology has cut cross-border clearance between south China's Shenzhen City and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) to as little as five minutes.
The port, which officially opened Monday, has significantly shortened clearance times for passengers traveling between the two cities.
Before the renovation, passengers had to queue and undergo checks twice. Now they queue and have their information collected only once, with inspection authorities on both sides conducting checks simultaneously.
"It is much faster than before. I only need to scan my face, without even taking out my ID," said a Hong Kong resident.
"It's really convenient and smooth. It only took me five minutes to pass the checkpoint," said a mainland resident.
The original Huanggang Port, which opened in 1989, is China's first large-scale land port providing 24-hour clearance service. It has served hundreds of millions of travelers, with daily passenger traffic peaking at over 60,000 and daily vehicle traffic reaching around 10,000.
Reconstruction on the original site began in 2019 to meet the surging demand for cross-border passage.
Facial scanning speeds up clearance at redeveloped Huanggang Port
