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Q: New Hong Kong Travel Limit For Shenzhen Citizens: Once A Week
Shenzhen citizens will now be limited to travelling to Hong Kong once a week, at most. In the past they were free to come and go as the pleased, but due to recent requests from the government of Hong Kong, the Central Government has taken measures to their travel. The policy was made in an effort to relieve stress at border crossings and tourist facilities across Hong Kong, which have been overburdened by the increase in mainland tourists in recent years. Citizens with special family or business situations will still be allowed to apply for multiple entry passes.
Is it late decision?
Just another law that favours the CCP somehow, concealed as an attempt to address HK issues. It's about the Mainland price-gouging bubble, and the threat of affordable merchandise from HK. They don't care about locust swarms or "pressure at border crossings" - they want to make smuggling goods more difficult. If you could bring 2-3 of item X across the border for 'personal use', and do so multiple times per day, then smuggling would be safe and hard to combat. If you can only visit once a week, you now need a gaggle of friends or relatives to help you with the smuggling.
Smuggling in this context is just the import of cheap goods into the Mainland, to sell for a higher price. It's hardly an issue the CCP could gain widespread support for, unless they confuse the issue.
The Netherlands does the same with milk powder: The Dutch Milk Powder companies are selling overpriced powder in China, using commercials to convince parents milk powder is better for their kids, and their breasts aren't big enough to feed a baby. A gov't subsidised box of powder costs around 100yuan in Holland, while the average price of powder in China is 3-4 times as high, and of questionable quality and origin. Chinese in Holland make a pretty penny sending boxes home.
Of course, if you don't try, your breasts will not grow to accommodate a baby's needs. And if you stop brestfeeding for 2 weeks, production stops completely, making a baby dependant on powder. With no antibodies from the motherr's milk, the baby must use its own metabolic energy to fight disease, neglecting physical and mental development.
But since China doesn't have laws concerning harmful misleading adverts, the producers can't be blamed. The CCP is probably quite happy that many families are convinced their babies need expensive powder; the cost discourages them from having a 2nd baby.
In 2012, the news in Holland claimed that illegal Chinese exporters had bought up ALL the powder from shops, and Dutch mothers (most breastfeed) couldn't find any. I suspect it was the producers collectively cutting off the supply to shops, so they could make propaganda against Chinese resellers. Since then, the public strongly supports measures restricting people's ability to buy milk powder. And the companies rake in the PROFITS, since that's what it's all about.
The milk powder companies voicing "worry and concern" that Chinese buyers can't read the Dutch packaging, is the most nauseating display of false concern I've heard in years.
I saw this.
I think its a wrong decision.
Sure, HK people complain about mainlanders buying up stuff, but this will hit the HK shops hard. I bet the HK people doing the complaining dont depend on the mainland shoppers for their jobs.
NIMBYs
Just another law that favours the CCP somehow, concealed as an attempt to address HK issues. It's about the Mainland price-gouging bubble, and the threat of affordable merchandise from HK. They don't care about locust swarms or "pressure at border crossings" - they want to make smuggling goods more difficult. If you could bring 2-3 of item X across the border for 'personal use', and do so multiple times per day, then smuggling would be safe and hard to combat. If you can only visit once a week, you now need a gaggle of friends or relatives to help you with the smuggling.
Smuggling in this context is just the import of cheap goods into the Mainland, to sell for a higher price. It's hardly an issue the CCP could gain widespread support for, unless they confuse the issue.
The Netherlands does the same with milk powder: The Dutch Milk Powder companies are selling overpriced powder in China, using commercials to convince parents milk powder is better for their kids, and their breasts aren't big enough to feed a baby. A gov't subsidised box of powder costs around 100yuan in Holland, while the average price of powder in China is 3-4 times as high, and of questionable quality and origin. Chinese in Holland make a pretty penny sending boxes home.
Of course, if you don't try, your breasts will not grow to accommodate a baby's needs. And if you stop brestfeeding for 2 weeks, production stops completely, making a baby dependant on powder. With no antibodies from the motherr's milk, the baby must use its own metabolic energy to fight disease, neglecting physical and mental development.
But since China doesn't have laws concerning harmful misleading adverts, the producers can't be blamed. The CCP is probably quite happy that many families are convinced their babies need expensive powder; the cost discourages them from having a 2nd baby.
In 2012, the news in Holland claimed that illegal Chinese exporters had bought up ALL the powder from shops, and Dutch mothers (most breastfeed) couldn't find any. I suspect it was the producers collectively cutting off the supply to shops, so they could make propaganda against Chinese resellers. Since then, the public strongly supports measures restricting people's ability to buy milk powder. And the companies rake in the PROFITS, since that's what it's all about.
The milk powder companies voicing "worry and concern" that Chinese buyers can't read the Dutch packaging, is the most nauseating display of false concern I've heard in years.
Good for Hongkers and Foreigners living in Shenzhen, smugglers will pay a fortune for 2 cans of baby formula.
Finally a good solution for the recent problems Hong Kong have been facing with too much mainlanders tourists. I think HK it's too small to contain so much people, it's good they are controlling the entry.
expatlife26:
yeah, I think the rest of the world just isn't equipped for how many people there are here. That's not like a value judgment either just a matter of logistics. You could get a billion of the smartest, most respectful and well behaved people in the world and they would still create logistical nightmares if they all wanted to visit places not equipped for so many.
