Rise in crossings at borders after announced Zhuhai block on cross-border vehicles

Police authorities indicated today (Wednesday) that since new restrictions for cross-border vehicles were announced, vehicle border crossings increased 47 per cent from the previous day.

Form midnight to noon of today a total of 1,941 vehicle crossings was recorded in local borders, of which 1,125 were vehicles exiting from Macau.

“There’s a lot of traffic at the border now. We want to ask drivers to be patient when crossing the border. We dispatched more personnel to maintain order,” a Public Security Police Force spokesperson said today.

Zhuhai authorities indicated that starting from 10:00am tomorrow (Thursday) vehicles with license plates allowing them to cross between Guangdong, Macau and Hong Kong will be temporarily blocked from entering the province.

The measure exempts vehicles used for the transportation of goods, public contingency services, funerals, or single registration vehicles allowed to enter Hengqin and the Zhuhai Cross-border Industrial Park.

Before the announcement, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) had already indicated that in the first two months of this year, cross-border vehicular traffic had dropped by 33.1 per cent year-on-year to 555,526 crossings.