The joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council held a press conference to promote the gradual normalization of personnel exchanges between China and foreign countries
Our newspaper, Beijing, January 13th (Reporter Wang Meihua) The State Council’s Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism held a press conference on the 13th to introduce the relevant situation of optimizing the management measures for the exchange of Chinese and foreign personnel.
“Since the implementation of the ‘Class B and B Control’ measures, measures such as health and quarantine of entry-exit personnel and vehicles, epidemic prevention and control at ports of entry for goods, and resumption of opening of border ports have been further optimized.” said Mi Feng, spokesman of the National Health Commission. In accordance with the relevant requirements for epidemic prevention and control, employees in the industry strengthen their own protection, and passengers implement personal protection measures. It is necessary to pay close attention to the epidemic trend of international and domestic mutant strains and grasp the situation of virus mutation in real time.
“The overall spirit and principle of the interim measures for Chinese and foreign personnel exchanges is to promote the gradual normalization of Chinese and foreign personnel exchanges.” Wu Xi, director of the Department of Consular Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, introduced that after the introduction of the new measures, the formalities for coming to China have been simplified, and the cancellation of diplomatic missions abroad. In the process of declaring the health code at the consulate, passengers can fill out the customs health declaration card after completing the nucleic acid 48 hours before boarding the plane. If it is negative, they can come to China. If they are positive, they can come to China after turning negative. There are more flights, and restrictions on the number, routes, and passenger load factor of flights have been lifted. In terms of roads and waterways, more ports are gradually and orderly opened. The centralized quarantine for entry has been cancelled, and people coming to China no longer need centralized quarantine. As long as the health declaration is normal and there is no problem with the routine quarantine at the customs, they can be released directly to the public.
Why does entry require passengers to have a nucleic acid test 48 hours before boarding? Wu Xi said that “Class B and B control” does not mean that Class B “doesn’t matter” or Class B “does not prevent”. It is to prevent the cross-border spread of viruses and to make the cross-border movement of people more convenient. The pathogenicity of the Omicron strain has weakened, but its infectivity is on the rise, especially during long-distance cross-border travel, where passengers stay in confined spaces for a long time, and the risk of infection is high in this case.
According to Liu Haitao, director of the Border Inspection and Management Department of the National Immigration Administration, since the implementation of the “Class B and B Control” on January 8, the number of people entering and leaving the country has increased steadily. Judging from the monitoring situation, the total number of entry and exit personnel has increased significantly. From January 8th to 12th, immigration management agencies across the country inspected 490,000 entry-exit personnel on a daily basis, an increase of 48.9% compared to before the implementation of the “Class B and Control” policy. Sea, land and air are simultaneously restored, and the average daily entry and exit personnel at seaports, land ports, and airport ports are 21,000, 424,000, and 45,000, respectively, an increase of 13%, 53.3%, and 33.2% compared with before the implementation. The number of inbound passengers is slightly higher than the number of outbound passengers, with an average daily entry of 250,000 person-times, an increase of 54.7% compared with that before the implementation, and a daily average of 240,000 person-times of overseas departures, an increase of 43.3% compared with that before the implementation.
“The Spring Festival holiday is approaching, and it is expected that the port will usher in a peak of people entering and exiting.” Liu Haitao said that the National Immigration Administration has deployed immigration management agencies at all levels to strengthen the organizational guarantee of customs clearance inspections, strengthen guidance and prompts, and strengthen customs clearance flow monitoring to ensure smooth customs clearance. .
