In the first quarter, the number of foreign tourists visiting China increased by 40%.

In the first quarter of this year, China's economy handed in a bright start: the GDP growth rate of 5.4% "exceeded expectations", various important indicators ran smoothly, showing that the certainty of China's economic recovery and improvement continues. Starting today, the Financial Program Center of the General Station will launch a special report "Let Data Speak! Looking at the Certainty of China's High-Quality Economic Development". In recent years, China has orderly expanded its independent and unilateral openness, and with a series of visa-free policies continuously released, "Chinese tourism" continues to heat up. The latest data shows that in the first quarter of this year, the number of inbound foreign tourists reached 9.215 million, an increase of 40.2% compared to the same period last year. The continuous efforts in policies such as departure tax refunds have a noticeable boost on inbound consumption.