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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
GUANGZHOU, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) — With the 22nd China-ASEAN Expo and the China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit held at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in south China's Guangdong Province, there has been a significant increase in passenger traffic from ASEAN countries this year.
According to data from the Baiyun Airport border control point, as of the end of September 16, the airport had already handled approximately 1.5 million arriving and departing passengers from ASEAN member countries since the beginning of 2025, representing a 42.6 percent increase year-on-year. Tourists accounted for 70.5 percent of this total, a 60 percent increase year-on-year.
Over the past two years, China has successively introduced reciprocal visa-free travel with three ASEAN countries – Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand – and this policy has contributed to the growth of people-to-people exchanges between China and ASEAN.
"The flight from Bangkok to Guangzhou takes just over three hours. Since the introduction of the visa-free regime, I've been visiting China every month to purchase electronic goods, and the customs clearance process is incredibly convenient," Thai businessman Somchai Chanthawani told Xinhua News Agency on Wednesday after completing the necessary entry procedures at Baiyun Airport.
Since the beginning of this year, almost 500,000 people from ASEAN member countries have entered China through the airport's checkpoint under the visa-free regime, which is 61.3 percent more than the previous year.
According to the Baiyun Airport border control point, the most frequent travelers to China came from Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand. During the reporting period, passenger traffic between China and Malaysia totaled 291,000, between China and Singapore 117,000, and between China and Thailand 104,000, with year-on-year growth rates of over 41 percent, 53 percent, and 67 percent, respectively.
As trade and economic cooperation between China and ASEAN deepens, and amid growing demand for travel to China due to the country's updated visa policy, the number of air routes to ASEAN countries from Guangzhou Baiyun Airport is steadily growing. Currently, over 100 scheduled passenger flights connect Guangzhou with cities in ASEAN countries each week.
To cope with the influx of air passengers ahead of the China-ASEAN Expo, the port has implemented paperless customs clearance procedures, and its staff, speaking Vietnamese, Thai, Malay and other languages, provide multilingual services, thereby improving the traveler experience. -0-
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