Xinjiang welcomes first foreign tourist group holding port group tourist visa this year

　　China News Service, Urumqi, March 16 (Taoshuanke Lu Zhixin) On the evening of March 15, flight HY507 from Tashkent to Urumqi landed at the Urumqi International Airport. A tour group of six people from Uzbekistan entered the country with a port group tourist visa. , this is the first foreign tourist group to come to Xinjiang, China with a port group tourist visa this year.

On the evening of March 15, a six-person tour group from Uzbekistan applied for a group travel visa at the Urumqi International Airport Port Visa Office of the Xinjiang Public Security Department.

Photo by Lu Zhixin

　　Ms. KAMILOVA KAMOLAKHON, a tourist from Uzbekistan, often travels to and from Urumqi. This time she plans to spend a week shopping in Urumqi.

“Now that we can apply for port visas, it is more convenient for us,” she said.

　　At the beginning of this year, the National Immigration Administration issued a number of measures to facilitate foreigners coming to China. The Exit-Entry Administration Bureau of the Xinjiang Public Security Department is based on the overall economic and social development of Xinjiang, focusing on the construction of the "Belt and Road" core area and the Xinjiang Free Trade Pilot Zone, and comprehensively implemented better In order to ensure open and convenient entry and exit measures, we will ensure and facilitate more foreigners to come to Xinjiang for business, work, study, and tourism, enhance exchanges between Chinese and foreign personnel, and support high-level opening up to the outside world.

　　The Urumqi International Airport Port Visa Office of the Xinjiang Public Security Department issued the first group tourist visa this year to meet the needs of foreign businessmen coming to Xinjiang and provide more convenient and flexible services.

　　The Xinjiang Public Security Exit and Entry Administration Department will continue to focus on high-quality development, coordinate openness and stability, make full use of existing convenience measures, and provide services for foreigners who urgently need to come to Xinjiang for visits and exchanges, business cooperation, investment and entrepreneurship, visiting relatives, and handling personal matters. Provide convenience in applying for port visas for entry and stay.

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