As the Spring Festival approaches, in order to meet the needs of people in Kinmen and Matsu to return home during the Lunar New Year, from January 7 to February 6, the cross-strait "miniature three links" passenger routes that have been suspended for nearly three years have been partially resumed.
Among them, the Xiamen-Kinmen passenger route was the first to resume navigation on the 7th.
Passenger ships on both sides of the strait take turns to operate the route. There is one round trip every day. It departs from Kinmen or Xiamen Wutong Passenger Terminal at 10:00 a.m. and returns at 12:00 noon after arriving on the other side. The passenger capacity of each passenger ship is about 300 people. .
Taiwanese citizens with household registration in the Kinmen area and their spouses and children can register in advance to make an appointment to take a boat.
On the first day of the resumption of the Xiamen-Jinmen route, more than 80 people from Kinmen returned to Kinmen by boat from Xiamen.
The passenger route from Fuzhou to Matsu will also resume operations on the 8th, with two round-trip flights per week initially.
Since the opening of the Xiamen-Jinjiang route and the two-Malaysia route on January 2, 2001, the "miniature three links" have witnessed the continuous and close exchanges between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait.
As of February 9, 2020, it has carried more than 22 million passengers.
In order to welcome the resumption of the "miniature three links" passenger route, Fujian's border inspection, customs, maritime affairs and other relevant departments have made full preparations in advance, conducted a comprehensive safety inspection of related facilities, passenger ships, etc., and evaluated the safety of the route , Clean up the waterway, optimize customs clearance and inspection measures, and carry out emergency drills in advance, etc., to provide convenience and travel safety guarantee for passengers.
(Headquarters reporter Wei Ming, Ma Ning and Wei Pengfei)