The government is committing to the first phase of customs clearance with the mainland next Sunday (8), there will initially be a limit on the number of people and citizens are advised to undergo a nucleic acid test first. According to reports, the Hong Kong section of the high-speed railway will start the trial run today to prepare for customs clearance, and the affected MTR employees have returned to their original posts one after another. Some members of the Legislative Council believe that there is a good chance of customs clearance next Sunday, and work together with Shenzhen to suspend the “Health Station” quarantine hotel reservation system on the same day. However, if the high-speed rail can resume the same day has yet to be accounted for by the government Customs clearance fees and agreements to purchase high-speed rail tickets. Some scholars believe that 150,000 to 200,000 people are newly diagnosed or awaiting recovery every day in Hong Kong, which is enough to bear the risks brought by customs clearance in the Mainland.
Hong Kong will clear customs with the mainland in stages at the earliest next Sunday, during which there will be a “predetermined appropriate” number of people, and will gradually increase the frequency of sea, land and air transport to and from the mainland. The Kong government also recommends passengers to travel between the two places. A negative nucleic acid test result was obtained early. “A4 Alliance” Legislative Council members Zhang Xinyu and Yang Yongjie received inquiries from this newspaper, both of them believed that they would be able to pass the quarantine with the mainland that day, and the details are yet to be announced by the Hong Kong government government .
Zhang Xinyu: The high-speed rail may not resume on the first day of customs clearance
A number of staff from the West Kowloon High Speed Railway Station returned yesterday to inspect and clean the station’s facilities. MTR responded to this newspaper that it is now preparing intensively for customs clearance, including inspection facilities, arranging the return of employees to their original positions for training and preparation, etc., to ensure everything runs smoothly and is ready. be announced in due time. Zhang Xinyu, who worked for the MTR, quoted his former colleagues who worked at West Kowloon Station as saying they had received no further news of the resumption of train services. at other stations. As for the high-speed train captain, he said that there are a limited number of shifts every day to pick up personnel from Shenzhen to work in Hong Kong, and only some of them need to retake the professional qualification exam. .
As for the quotas for the first stage of customs clearance, Zhang Xinyu believes that it depends on whether the mainland reopens independent travel, if not, there is no need to set quotas, because the number of Hong Kong people holding the return to home permits and people from the mainland coming to Hong Kong on business visas are limited. If independent travel is reopened, the fee can be set at around 30% by referring to the number of arrivals in early 2019. He continued to point out that it is not known whether the successful purchase of high-speed rail tickets is equivalent to obtaining a customs clearance fee. It is expected that the government will take some time to resolve the issue and the high-speed rail may not resume the first customs clearance day.
Yang Yongjie said that referring to the current number of people trying to book quarantine hotels every day in Shenzhen, the daily quota of 30,000 is enough, but he hopes that the quota at Shenzhen Bay Control Station will be higher than that of Luohu and Lok Ma Chau. Bus services are still suspended, and citizens are advised to enter the mainland through Shenzhen Bay. In the business sector, the president of the Chamber of Commerce, Shi Lide, expressed in a radio program the wish that there be a daily quota of 30,000 to 50,000 in the initial stage of customs clearance.
Real Politics Roundtable Legislative Council member Tian Beichen cited news to the media that the high-speed rail will only provide short-distance services to and from Shenzhen and Guangzhou in the initial stage, and is expected to start selling tickets within days. . Zhang Xinyu pointed out that it is not technically difficult to provide only short-distance trains to send the trains. Yong Yongjie does not only oppose short-distance trains and believes that passengers can transfer to other high-speed railway lines at that time . The authorities are currently discussing the customs clearance plan, which will be announced in due course, so that those intending to travel between the two places can make the appropriate preparations.
Jin Dongyan stressed that the mainland should complete vaccinations upon entering Hong Kong
There were 20,230 confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in Hong Kong yesterday, 367 of which were imported. Jin Dongyan, a professor at the University of Hong Kong’s School of Biomedical Sciences, said yesterday that the local epidemic situation has localized, and the prevalence rate data from the University of Hong Kong shows that 150,000 to 200,000 people are newly diagnosis or awaiting recovery every day risks of. He also said that mainland tourists should be on par with overseas tourists and should complete vaccination of the new corona vaccine, of which Kexing should receive three injections.
Originally released on AM730 https://www.am730.com.hk/Local/1.8 Customs Clearance – High Speed Rail Ready to Go – Customs Clearance Fee Ticket purchase agreement is not finalized yet / 355340?utm_source=yahoorss&utm_medium=referral
