China is on high alert at its international ports of entry to reduce the risk of COVID-19 cases entering from abroad, and it has stepped up restrictions within the country amid a growing outbreak less than 100 days before the Beijing Winter Olympics.
The National Immigration Administration said on Thursday it would continue to guide citizens not to go abroad for non-urgent and non-essential reasons.
Authorities have also tightened COVID-19 curbs in the capital ahead of a major gathering of the top members of the Communist Party next week.Since mid-October, over 700 locally transmitted cases with confirmed symptoms have been reported in China. While the number is a trickle compared with infections in other countries, it has led to a growing wave of restrictions being imposed on local tourism and travel under Beijing's zero-tolerance policy.
Local officials have imposed strict curbs to prevent the spread of the virus to other parts of the country, despite disruptions to the local economy.A supplier of home decorating materials in Ruili said his income had plummeted by about 80% this year from 2020, as he could not enter the residences of some clients under lockdown.
In 2019, before the pandemic, Yunnan raked in 1.1 trillion yuan in tourism revenue, nearly three times what Australia earned from tourism that year.
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