According to National Immigration Administration (NIA), during the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, the country's border inspection authorities inspected 5.29 million arrival and departure passengers, a decline of 7 percent comparing with the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday of last year (hereinafter referred to as "year-on-year").

A total of 220,000 flights (ships, vehicles) were inspected, a year-on-year decline of 8.3 percent. The overall passenger traffic at large air ports such as Beijing Capital International Airport, Shanghai Pudong International Airport, Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport and Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport remained stable with little change compared with the same period of last year, the total arrivals and departures on a daily average amounting to 75,000, 104,000, 48,000 and 19,000 respectively.

Land ports adjacent to Macao SAR saw a steady rise of arrival and departure passengers. Gongbei Port reported 392,000 arrivals and departures on a daily average, 1 percent up over last year. Comparatively, land ports adjacent to Hong Kong SAR saw significant decline. The total arrivals and departures of Luohu Port, Futian Port, Shenzhen Bay Port, Huanggang Port and West Kowloon Station Port stood respectively at 230,000, 132,000, 112,000, 67,000 and 36,000, with a respective year-on-year decline of 15.6 percent, 28.5 percent, 25.9 percent, 30.7 percent and 13.5 percent.

There has been a significant increase of arrival and departure passengers at air ports of Zhengzhou, Xi'an, Nanning, Wuhan and Hefei, land ports of Dandong and Youyiguan, and shipping ports of Dalian, Heihe and Fangchenggang, with a year-on-year increase of over 15 percent.

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