The number of entries and exits recorded at Macau’s border checkpoints so far this year reached 200 million on Sunday night, exceeding the 200-million benchmark 29 days earlier than last year, the Public Security Police (PSP) have announced.
A PSP statement on Sunday night said that Macau has recorded a daily average of 640,000 entries and exits at its border checkpoints so far this year, representing a 9.8 percent increase compared to the same period of last year.
In 2024, Macau recorded 210 million entries and exits at its border checkpoints, the highest annual number on record, representing a 17.5 percent increase from the 180 million recorded in 2023, and a 10.3 percent increase from the 190 million recorded in pre-COVID-19 pandemic 2019.
Last year was the first time that the annual number of border crossings exceeded 200 million.
In 2024, the then cumulative number of entries and exits at Macau’s border checkpoints exceeded the 200-million benchmark on December 7, while this year the then cumulative number reached the 200-million benchmark on Sunday, November 9.
Macau has nine border checkpoints, comprising five land border checkpoints with Zhuhai City in Guangdong Province, three passenger ferry terminals, and the international airport in Taipa.
As of Sunday night, according to the PSP statement, the Barrier Gate checkpoint had recorded 105 million entries and exits so far this year, representing 52.7 percent of the total number of border crossings at all checkpoints during the period, while the Qingmao checkpoint, the Hengqin checkpoint, and the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge’s (HZMB) Macau checkpoint recorded 30.92 million, 25.39 million, and 23.94 million entries and exits, accounting for 15.5 percent, 12.7 percent and 12.0 percent of the total respectively.
Together with the small Zhuhai-Macau Cross-Border Industrial Zone checkpoint (its border crossings accounting for only 0.2 percent of the total), Macau’s five land border checkpoints accounted for 93 percent of the total number of border crossings recorded at the city’s nine checkpoints during the period, i.e., between January 1 and November 9 this year.
Only those working at the Zhuhai-Macau Cross-border Industrial Zone can use the checkpoint there.
This file photo taken early this year shows border crossers passing through manual inspection channels at the Macau-mainland joint checkpoint on Zhuhai’s Hengqin island. – Photo: Tony Wong
