(Yicai) March 19 — The number of travelers passing through the Shenzhen-Hong Kong land border has hit several record highs since the end of the Chinese New Year holiday.
Some 92,000 people passed Liantang port’s border control point in Shenzhen on March 17, three times its designed flow capacity, according to monitoring data. The daily passenger flow at the border control point set four new records this month.
Luohu port, another border checkpoint in Shenzhen, recorded 210,000 passengers on March 17, over 83 percent of which were Hong Kong residents, according to data from the Hong Kong Immigration Department.
The land border between Shenzhen and Hong Kong resumed operation in phases on Jan. 8 last year, after China eased its Covid-19 pandemic prevention and control measures. The passenger flows between the two cities climbed quickly, with an especially large rise in Hong Kong travelers to the Chinese mainland.
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