Specialrapport om den första dagen för ömsesidigt visumundantag mellan Xiamen och Malaysia
At 6:30 am on July 17, Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport ushered in a historic moment - Xiamen Airlines MF858 flight carrying more than 100 passengers arrived in Xiamen smoothly from Kuala Lumpur. This is the first direct flight from Fujian to Malaysia after the entry into force of the mutual visa exemption agreement between China and Malaysia. As an important Hemstad av utländska kineser och en navstad i Maritime Silk Road, Xiamen står återigen i framkant när det gäller att öppna upp för omvärlden .
Xiamen border inspection data shows that since the trial of the visa exemption policy in December 2023, more than 178,000 Chinese citizens have traveled to Malaysia through the Xiamen port, an average increase of 97% compared with the daily average before the policy. At present, there are 68 flights per week between Xiamen and Kuala Lumpur, of which Xiamen Airlines has 8 flights per day, Att bygga en gyllene kanal för "Air Silk Road" . Shen Wenjuan, chef för Gaoqi Border Inspection -station, sa att i år har mer än 234, 000 kinesiska och malaysiska passagerare har rest genom Xiamen, och antalet malaysiska passagerare har förblivit den största antalet passagerare till Xiam -porten)
Relevant officials of the Xiamen Municipal Government pointed out that this policy will greatly promote economic, trade and tourism cooperation between the two places. Xiamen Travel Agency has launched new products such as "Visa-free Tour of Penang" and "Kuala Lumpur Business Express", and it is expected that the number of tourists to Malaysia during the summer vacation will increase by 120% year-on-year. Xiamen Airlines har också uppgraderat sina tjänster och tillhandahåller luftsändningar på Minnan Dialect och Xiamen-stil flygmåltider .