In 2024, Taiwan residents made more than 4.02 million trips to the Chinese mainland, marking a significant 54.3% increase from the previous year. 📊✈️
Chen Binhua, spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, announced during a regular press conference on Wednesday that the mainland has been actively facilitating personnel exchanges across the Taiwan Strait. This effort particularly supports Taiwan residents in working, studying, and living in southeastern Fujian Province. 🏫🏢
Fujian has been designated as a demonstration zone for cross-Strait integrated development. Last year, it welcomed 920,000 trips by Taiwan residents, a 53.3% rise compared to the previous year. 🌟
Chen highlighted that in the past year, 8,817 trips were operated on direct routes between Fujian's coastal areas and Kinmen and Mazu. These routes transported over 1.37 million passengers, showing year-on-year increases of 67.2% and 78.8%, respectively. 🚆🛫
The four direct passenger routes – Mawei to Mazu, Huangqi to Mazu, Quanzhou to Kinmen, and Xiamen to Kinmen – are currently running up to 210 trips each week. 🗓️
Since travel resumed for Fujian residents to Mazu and Kinmen last year, by the end of December, Mazu had welcomed 193 group tourists and 885 individual visitors, while Kinmen received 2,834 group tourists and 39,751 individual travelers. 🌍👥
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced the resumption of travel for Fujian residents to Kinmen in late August 2024, with the first tour group arriving in September. Similarly, Mazu welcomed its first tour group in August last year. 🏖️✨
