On October 23, 2018, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge was officially opened. Tomorrow, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge will celebrate its "second birthday". Reporters learned from the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Immigration Inspection Station of the Zhuhai Immigration Main Station that in the past two years, more than 17.92 million passengers and more than 1.49 million inbound and outbound vehicles have passed through Zhuhai highway ports.
In the two years since its opening, what benefits has the bridge brought to our lives?
In the early morning of October 18, the Dolphin Tower of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge ushered in a spectacular sunrise. Photo by Kerwin
All-weather customs clearance, freight is not interrupted
Before the opening of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, people traveling from Zhuhai and Macau to Hong Kong by land could only bypass the Dongguan Humen Bridge. The Humen Bridge is also highly congested on weekdays. If you bypass the Humen Bridge from the Guangzhou-Macao Expressway and pass through the Shenzhen Bay Highway Bridge to reach Hong Kong, it will take at least more than 3 hours of driving. After the opening of the
bridge, the only freight "artery" from Hong Kong to western Guangdong was opened. Every day, there is an endless stream of trucks transporting import and export commodities and fresh agricultural products.
"With the construction and development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong Greater Bay Area, relevant facilitation measures have been introduced one after another, and more and more trucks choose to travel on the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge." He Feng, director of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Border Inspection Station, said.
Border police inspect entry and exit trucks.
At the beginning of this year, a sudden epidemic spread across the world, but this did not affect the growth of the number of inbound and outbound trucks via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge. From January to September, the bridge's border inspection station inspected 110,000 inbound and outbound trucks, a year-on-year increase of 61%, with an average of 400 trucks per day, 17 times the number on the first day of opening. Among them, on September 28 and 29, the number of port trucks reached 1,400, breaking the single-day record for two consecutive days.
"Thanks to the 24-hour customs clearance mode and convenient customs clearance environment at Zhuhai Highway Port, the competitiveness of enterprises has been further improved. During the epidemic, our supply of fresh products to Hong Kong has never been interrupted." Weng Xipeng, general manager of Zhuhai Haimiao Aquatic Products Import and Export Co., Ltd. Said that this year the company exported more than 500 tons of aquatic products through the bridge, with export revenue of 100 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 98%.
Not only that, during the epidemic, the bridge border inspection station provided rapid customs clearance for vehicles transporting epidemic prevention materials more than 300 times, benefiting a total amount of epidemic prevention materials exceeding 53 million yuan. The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge has become a "concentric bridge" connecting compatriots in the three places.
Tourists across the country "check in" for the Great Power Project
The vast Lingding Blue Waves and the unobstructed view of southern Guangdong style are an unparalleled Great Power Project.
As soon as the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge opened, it attracted tourists from all over the country to "check in", and the immigration hall was extremely popular. In less than two weeks since its opening, the daily passenger flow has exceeded 50,000. During the Spring Festival in 2019, passenger flow increased significantly again, with the average daily passenger flow reaching 80,000, and the single-day passenger flow hitting a record high of 113,000.
The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, the longest cross-sea bridge in the world, was officially opened in 2018, bringing the urban agglomeration of the Greater Bay Area closer.
As the epidemic enters normalized prevention and control, Guangdong and Macao gradually resumed normal travel between the two places on July 24. The number of entry and exit vehicles at the Zhuhai Highway Port of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge has increased significantly, and the single-day inspection record for entry and exit vehicles has been set multiple times. Record. Among them, nearly 6,000 vehicles were inspected on September 30, setting a record for the highest number of inspections and releases in a single day since the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge was officially opened to traffic. During the National Day holiday that just passed, a total of 31,000 vehicles were inspected, with an average of 3,800 vehicles per day, a year-on-year increase of 18%.
In order to ensure the safety and smoothness of the port, the bridge border inspection station adheres to the maximum use of police officers, and effectively realizes the liberalization of personnel circulation and exchanges through methods such as the agency sinking to the front line, cross-shift support of duty teams, cross-disciplinary teams, and cross-division mutual assistance. Facilitation.
new inspection mode has been implemented, and you can clear the level in 20 seconds!
Passengers go through one queue and undergo one centralized inspection in the same inspection hall, and can complete the border inspection procedures between the mainland and Macao in as fast as 20 seconds. At the Zhuhai Highway Port of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, the new inspection model of "cooperative inspection and one-time release" was the first to be implemented in the country. In the past two years, this model has inspected and released more than 3.2 million people entering and exiting the country.
Behind the huge flow of people and vehicles is the deepening cross-border cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao.Through the police liaison officer mechanism, the HZMB Border Inspection Station has strengthened its service cooperation and emergency response linkage with Australia, and established a complete set of work standard systems covering business processes, equipment maintenance, emergency response and other aspects; it has strengthened its work with Hong Kong Interoperability and mutual assistance in law enforcement have enabled early warning of passenger and vehicle flows during holidays. In response to the group of cross-border school children that emerged after the opening of the port, the Bridge Border Inspection Station explored an inspection model of "data entry, dedicated seats, dual post linkage, and complete vehicle submission". Students can complete the inspection work without getting off the car, greatly shortening the inspection time. Time, so far a total of 20,000 cross-border school children have been provided with assistance.
Standing on the coast of the South China Sea, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge confirms the strong vitality of "one country, two systems". In the future, this place will also witness the rise of the dazzling power of the Greater Bay Area.
[Reporter] Liu Yanting
[Correspondent] Wang Xiangguo
[Author] Liu Yanting
[Source] Southern Newspaper Media Group Southern + Client
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