Since May, Maoming city in south China's Guangdong Province, the country's largest lychee-producing region, has been filled with the scent of ripe lychees. In Baiqiao village, Genzi town, Gaozhou city, administered by Maoming, local officials and villagers have been busy selling, picking, packing, and delivering lychees to ensure they reach customers quickly.
On June 11, People's Daily Online reporters posed as foreign travelers and experienced the 240-hour transit visa-free policy and fast-track customs process at Xinzheng International Airport in Zhengzhou, capital city of central China's Henan Province. From fingerprint collection and filling out the entry card to completing the visa-free application, the entire process flowed smoothly - and took just three minutes! Behind this "lightning-fast" customs clearance lies Henan's accelerating drive of opening up to the world.
A reporter tries playing the bamboo tube piano. (People's Daily Online/Shi Yu) At the exhibition hall of Ganzhou Sentai Bamboo & Wood Co.
Imported goods are being delivered as soon as the next day, and even the same day in some cases. How is that possible? The scene at the Zhengzhou Xinzheng Comprehensive Bonded Zone in central China's Henan Province may provide an answer.
