{"id":380612,"date":"2026-04-08T02:22:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T02:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/380612\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T02:22:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T02:22:36","slug":"car-record-for-mega-bridges-hong-kong-checkpoint-as-fb-sector-feels-holiday-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/380612\/","title":{"rendered":"Car record for mega bridge\u2019s Hong Kong checkpoint as F&#038;B sector feels holiday pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Residents made more than 2 million outbound passenger trips over the first four days of the Easter break, while the number of motorists using the city\u2019s border checkpoint for the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge hit a single-day record on Monday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Immigration Department figures published on Tuesday showed that the number of outgoing Hong Kong residents rose by 14.34 per cent year on year to 2.12 million over the period.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">This year\u2019s Easter holiday runs from Friday to Tuesday, while the break in 2025 stretched for four days. The three-day Ching Ming Festival also overlapped with this year\u2019s break, from Saturday to Monday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The department recorded 411,972 inbound visitors from mainland China over the first four days of this year\u2019s break, marking a 16.13 per cent increase. The number of visitors from other places also grew by 1.79 per cent from the corresponding period in 2025.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The outbound figure for residents could mean that up to 28 per cent of Hong Kong\u2019s 7.51 million population departed the city.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Travellers enter the city via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge border crossing on Tuesday, the last day of the break. Photo: Karma Lo\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/061d2a11-5f8a-4e50-9ad5-df13a384bd59_49f2c0fd.jpg\" title=\"Travellers enter the city via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge border crossing on Tuesday, the last day of the break. Photo: Karma Lo\"\/>Travellers enter the city via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge border crossing on Tuesday, the last day of the break. Photo: Karma Lo<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The department said the mega bridge\u2019s Hong Kong checkpoint broke a single-day record for the total number of inbound and outbound car trips on Monday, at 27,411. Of those, 68 per cent were Hongkongers using the \u201cnorthbound vehicle scheme\u201d, which allows residents to drive their cars to Guangdong cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents made more than 2 million outbound passenger trips over the first four days of the Easter break,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,12651,182139,182136,184,182132,3448,182133,182135,3738,85,182134,46,8177,43,182137,14857,182138],"class_list":{"0":"post-380612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-central","10":"tag-ching-ming-festival","11":"tag-easter-break","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-edward-leung-hei","14":"tag-hong-kong","15":"tag-hong-kong-feast-and-retreat-association","16":"tag-hong-kong-zhuhai-macau-bridge","17":"tag-hongkongers","18":"tag-il","19":"tag-immigration-department","20":"tag-israel","21":"tag-mainland-china","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-northbound-vehicle-scheme","24":"tag-scmp","25":"tag-teahouses"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}