Personal Neura of mainland visitors to Hong Kong economy

Figures from the National Tourism Administration show that despite the international financial crisis, a total of 7.2495 million mainland visitors travelled to Hong Kong in the first 5 months of this year, an increase of 7.4% per cent, of which "individual visitors" reached 4.1449 million passengers and accounted for 57.17% of the mainland visitors.　　The mainland's visit to Hong Kong has become an important driving force for Hong Kong's tourism and economic development. Before July 2003, mainland residents could only apply to Hong Kong and Macao for visiting relatives, business and tour groups. To help Hong Kong and Macao to get out of the SARS outbreak as soon as possible, on July 28, the mainland opened some residents of the province (city) to travel to Hong Kong and Macao ("personal Tour").　　Up to now, there are 22 cities in the mainland and 49 municipalities have opened a "personal tour" to Hong Kong. The policy of "individual travel" is being continuously promoted and perfected, for example, starting from April 1 this year, Shenzhen residents of the registration of a certain condition, can handle a number of times a year to visit the Hong Kong endorsement, this May 1, the resident of Shenzhen, non-Cantonese residents can also be in Shenzhen to Hong Kong "personal tour" endorsement.　　The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government commissioner for Tourism, Sun Sun, said the two "individual visits" measures would further facilitate more mainland residents to travel to the territory for consumption. According to statistics, over the past 6 years, the mainland has had a total of 39.5078 million trips to Hong Kong on a "personal tour". For 2008 years, the number of visitors from the mainland to Hong Kong amounted to more than 16.86 million, representing 57.1% of the total annual visits to Hong Kong, which grew by 8.9%. Among them, the "personal tour" endorsement of nearly 9.62 million visitors to Hong Kong, accounted for 57% of the total number of mainland visitors, an increase of 11.9%. has created more than HK $58 billion in consumption for Hong Kong. Hong Kong retail, catering, hotels and other related industries have also increased 20,000 new jobs. vigorously promote the economic and social development of Hong Kong.