The immigration checkpoint in Dongxing, South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region which borders Vietnam resumed allowing people to enter the port on a reservation basis from Monday, according a notice issued by local authorities.
Individual travelers need to complete an online reservation, submit valid exit and entry documents, visas, residence certificates in Vietnam, in addition to a vaccination certificate, and a negative nucleic acid test taken within seven days prior to entry.
The number of reservations permitted will be adjusted according to the available capacity of local quarantine compliant hotels and treatment capacity of designated hospitals.
Qualified applicants will be issued with a Guangxi port entrance health code and can enter the country on a designated date, provided they can also provide a negative nucleic acid test taken 48 hours before entry.
The checkpoint is open between 8 am and 9 pm each day.
The customs clearance for goods also resumed on Friday after a cluster of cases in the city was brought under control.
The city announced the lifting of lockdown measures on Friday.
The city of Dongxing had adopted quasi-lockdown measures from late December. The checkpoint has since suspended operation to both people and goods. A total of 20 local cases were uncovered during the city’s most recent COVID-19 outbreak.
Dongxing, in southern part of Guangxi, is located at the most southwestern end of the coastline of the Chinese mainland and is home to about 210,000 residents. The southwest part of the city is connected by land and sea to neighboring Vietnam.
A police officer of immigration inspection checkpoint checks a truck at Dongxing port in Dongxing, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Jan. 8, 2022.Photo:Xinhua
