Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province, south China - Recent (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Various of people at Gongbei Port
2. Various of people going through security check
3. Various of vehicles waiting to pass through port
4. Border staffer checking vehicle
5. Various of people going through security check
6. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Zheng, Macao resident (full name not given/starting with shot 5):
"We are from Macao and our hometown is in Zhongshan City. In order to avoid congestion, we decided to go home a week in advance to celebrate the Chinese New Year during this period."
7. Aerial shots of vehicles waiting to go through port
8. People queuing to enter departure hall
9. People going through security check
10. Building of Hengqin Port
11. Various of people at reception hall
12. Various of people going through procedures
13. Facade of building on Qingmao Port
14. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Yi Min, deputy director, border inspection division, Gongbei Border Inspection Station:
"Since the beginning of the Spring Festival travel rush, we inspected 1.617 million passengers daily, with the highest single-day passenger flow reaching nearly 350,000, an average daily increase of about 16 percent compared to that before the Spring Festival travel rush."
15. Various of Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Zhuhai Port, people
16. Various of people going through procedures
17. Various of vehicles
18. Sign on bus reading (Chinese/English) "Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Tour"
19. People going through security check
20. Various of staff members inspecting vehicles
21. Vehicle moving

As the Spring Festival approaches, the major ports connecting south China's Zhuhai City with Macao has seen a peak passenger flow, which mainly consists of Macao residents who return home for the festival and mainland residents who go to Macao for purchasing.

Statistics from the Zhuhai Border Entry-Exit Inspection Station show that since the beginning of China's Spring Festival travel rush on Jan 26, the station has inspected more than 4 million inbound and outbound passengers, and more than 200,000 inbound and outbound vehicles, an increase of more than 13 percent compared with normal time.

On January 31 alone, the Gongbei Border Inspection Station inspected more than 9,000 inbound and outbound vehicles, reaching the highest number of vehicles in a single day in the past four years.

"We are from Macao and our hometown is in Zhongshan City. In order to avoid congestion, we decided to go home a week in advance to celebrate the Chinese New Year during this period," said a Macao resident surnamed Zheng.

Other major Zhuhai-Macao ports, including Hengqin Port and Qingmao Port, also experienced a significant surge in the flow of inbound and outbound passengers. In response, the border inspection departments in Zhuhai enhanced collaboration with relevant authorities in Hong Kong and Macao to ensure effective customs clearance.

"Since the beginning of the Spring Festival travel rush, we inspected 1.617 million passengers daily, with the highest single-day passenger flow reaching nearly 350,000, an average daily increase of about 16 percent compared to that before the Spring Festival travel rush," said Yi Min, deputy director of the border inspection division of the Gongbei Border Inspection Station.

At the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Zhuhai Port, which is connected to Hong Kong and Macao through highways and bridges, the passengers are mainly tour groups. Since the beginning of the Spring Festival travel rush, as many as 300 student and senior groups enter and exit the port every day.