China saw a total of 11.279 million cross-border trips during the five-day May Day holiday, which ended on Tuesday, according to official data released Wednesday.
Data from the National Immigration Administration showed that border authorities recorded an average of 2.256 million trips per day during the holiday, marking a 3.5 percent increase year on year compared with last year’s May Day holiday.
The single-day peak for entry-exit crossings occurred on May 2, reaching 2.529 million trips.
Foreign nationals accounted for 1.255 million trips, up 12.5 percent year on year. Additionally, 436,000 international arrivals benefited from visa-free entry policies, marking a 14.7 percent increase comparing with last year.
A total of 531,000 aircraft, vessels, trains, and vehicles carrying people and goods were inspected, an increase of 16.6 percent compared with the same period last year.
China records some 11.3 million cross-border trips during May Day holiday
The European Union’s (EU’s) trade chief has urged the United States to quickly restore the tariff levels agreed under last year’s EU-U.S. trade deal, the European Commission said on Tuesday in Brussels, Belgium.
The Commission held that it would be “beneficial” to have the main terms of the deal in place ahead of its first anniversary in July.
On the same day, European Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security Maros Sefcovic met with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer in Paris, France. A key concern for the EU remains U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to raise tariffs on EU cars and trucks to 25 percent, according to Sefcovic.
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that if a 25-percent U.S. tariff were imposed on EU cars, the bloc should “activate” its anti-coercion instruments, denouncing what he described as “threats of destabilization”, according to French news channel BFM TV.
“Agreements that have been signed must be respected,” said Macron, adding that if any country were threatened with tariffs, the EU has equipped itself with instruments that would need to be activated.
Under the EU-U.S. trade deal reached in July 2025, the EU would suspend tariffs on all U.S. industrial products and introduce tariff-rate quotas for a wide range of U.S. agri-food products entering the EU market. In return, the United States would apply a 15-percent import tariff on most EU goods.
EU urges U.S. to reinstate trade deal tariffs
