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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
GUANGZHOU, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) — The total passenger volume through the Zhuhai Port of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge since its opening in October 2018 has exceeded 100 million as of Jan. 6, 2026, marking a new milestone in the development of integration processes in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
"Traveling between Guangdong and Hong Kong used to require several transfers and take a long time. Now, I can go directly to my Hong Kong clients' offices. Doing business has become much easier," says Chen Zhaochan, a Guangdong resident and auto parts dealer.
The 55-kilometer bridge connects two special administrative regions—Hong Kong and Macao—and the city of Zhuhai (Guangdong Province), all located in southern China. As the world's longest sea-going tunnel-bridge, it significantly reduces travel time between Hong Kong and Zhuhai, as well as between Hong Kong and Macao, from three hours to approximately 45 minutes.
According to the bridge's border control point, it took more than five years to reach 50 million passenger traffic, but after just one year and eight months, that figure has already doubled.
Since 2018, residents of Hong Kong and Macao have crossed the Zhuhai Port 58.7 million times, accounting for 58.7 percent of the total passenger traffic. In 2025, 18 million bridge crossings by residents of the two special administrative regions were recorded, an increase of almost 300 percent compared to 2019.
"We're happy with the restaurants, shops, accommodations, and medical care here. My family and friends in Hong Kong also come to visit us. My life has expanded," said Hong Kong resident Ho Chi-hung, who and his wife bought an apartment and settled in Zhongshan City in Guangdong Province.
In addition to local residents, amid the boom in travel within China and the introduction of 240-hour visa-free transit, the number of foreign travelers choosing to travel through the Zhuhai Port on the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macao Bridge, as it is directly connected to Hong Kong International Airport, is growing. In 2025, foreigners cleared border control there 569,000 times, a 28.7 percent increase from the previous year.
The growing passenger traffic on the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge has demonstrated the deepening economic and social integration of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
In 2024, the region, which accounts for less than 1 percent of China's total land area and 6 percent of the country's population, had a GRP of 14.79 trillion yuan (about $2.11 trillion), or one-ninth of the country's GDP, surpassing the New York Bay Area and San Francisco Bay Area. -0-
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