During this year's National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, my country's consumer market is booming. With the continuous optimization of policies and measures such as visa exemption, tax refund and payment facilitation, a large number of foreign tourists have traveled to China."China Travel" continues to be popular during this holiday. So many foreigners come to China, what do they like to eat? Playing what?

At 7 a.m., the first batch of tourists was welcomed in the arrival hall of the Heihe Water Transport Tourism Inspection Port in Heilongjiang Province. Here, the reporter met a Russian tourist, Dalia, who had planned her trip for the day as soon as she cleared customs.

Russian tourists from Dalia:I want to take a walk and travel in Heihe River. I want to go to the place where there is a beautiful village in the suburbs called the China-Russia Ethnic Style Park. I also want to buy some beautiful things in the city center.

Shortly before the National Day holiday, China piloted a one-year visa-free policy for Russian ordinary passport holders. Heihe, a Sino-Russian border city, has welcomed a new wave of inbound consumption because of this policy. Walking from the port into the Urban area, the fireworks of the morning market attract a large number of foreign tourists. The morning market less than 1500 meters accommodates more than 1600 stalls. Fruit and vegetable stalls and snack shop stalls are crowded with customers. Looking around, blond Russian tourists can be seen everywhere.

Russian tourist Elena:I came here to learn about Chinese culture, taste delicious food, watch the beautiful scenery, I like everything here, and the weather is good too.

According to statistics from the Heihe Entry-Exit Border Inspection Station, in the six days before the holiday, the total number of inbound passengers at Heihe Port increased by 38.46% year-on-year. The rich products and friendly environment make this place a "popular check-in place" for residents of the Russian Far East for leisure travel.

Chongqing, as an international consumption center city, has also attracted a large number of international tourists to experience this holiday with its rich cultural and tourism resources such as three-dimensional mountains and rivers and special spicy food. At Jiefangbei, Chongqing, the reporter met a tour group from Europe. There were more than 60 tourists in the entire group. They had already checked in to many attractions around Ciqikou Ancient Town and Jiefang Monument that day. Mapo tofu, twice-cooked pork, hot pot gas and spicy and delicious taste make foreign tourists feast.

Visitors to Dorothy Emilia:It¡¯s a bit spicy for me, but it¡¯s delicious and delicious, and I really like these dishes.

In order to make overseas tourists travel more convenient, this year's National Day Mid-Autumn holiday, Chongqing launched a new upgraded English-language cultural tourism hand-painted map, covering the locations of attractions, food stores, hotel accommodation and other contents, and set up bilingual volunteer service stations in the area concentrated by foreign tourists such as the Liberation Monument and the Hill Cave.

Leader of the trip, Herma Thomas:Chongqing was our biggest surprise on this trip, and now China is one of the most popular destinations for our company. So far, we have confirmed 500 tours for next year.

Local foods are favored by foreign tourists.

At the same time that "China tour" continues to be hot, it also drives "China shopping" to continue to warm up, so what Chinese goods are in the shopping cart of foreigners?

During this National Day Mid-Autumn holiday, Shanghai¡¯s business circles seize the opportunity to promote consumption by launching intensive discounts, festival combination packages and various debut flash events. In the afternoon on the Nanjing Road walking street, foreign tourists with their shopping bags can be seen everywhere. In a sports store, a couple from Belarus are testing their sports shoes.

Belarusian tourist Dalia:The goods in this shop are very special. Here, we can enjoy tax refund service, and there is a rich choice of goods.

The abundant supply of China products provides foreign tourists with more new options for "buying" in China. The couple from the UK are going to pick up some different China products to take home.

British tourists:We just went to that almond sugar store and there was something special there. so as long as we were interested in something different from the UK, there was a lot of toy stores here and there was a lot of clothes for children to wear, and these were good.

In the interview, the reporter found that the shopping list of foreigners is gradually expanding from traditional souvenirs, tea, etc. to mobile phones, drones and other specialty national goods. In Shenzhen, China's strong north, the holiday market is shrinking, and many foreign tourists specialize in buying electronic products here.

Indian tourist Daz Anthony:This special trip to Shenzhen to see this electronic city, just seeing this product I thought to buy one.

In order to further improve the convenience of entry and consumption, the departure tax refund services have been optimized before this holiday, so that foreign travellers enjoy more convenience.

Shanghai has launched the first "unpapered" tax refund new initiative in the country, and the exit tax refund service platform "Hand in Hand" can realize the purchase order, customs verification, tax refund to account and other exit tax refund on the entire process line, and the tax refund efficiency is significantly improved.

Shenzhen has upgraded the exit tax refund "one single package" facilitation model to "one single package one yard", foreign tourists do not need to check the goods one by one when leaving the country, just scan the two-dimensional code in the customs refund window, the system can complete the information ratio with the verification, greatly shorten the customs verification time and the waiting time of the traveller on site.

Chengdu, Sichuan, guides domestic technology brands, as well as cultural and creative merchants such as giant panda culture, to join the ranks of departure tax refunds, and innovates in-store refunds, online refunds and other modes.

The total number of departure tax refund shops in Hubei Province has expanded from the first batch of 57 to 115. The registration work of 66 "buy and return" shops has been completed. The network of participating tax refund shops and the range of products covered have continued to expand.

The departure tax refund policy continues to expand to increase the popularity of inbound tourism

In order to further expand entry consumption, China's exit tax refund policy implementation is extending to more regions, and recently, Guizhou provinces and Jilin provinces have also begun to implement exit tax refund policies, so that foreign tourists can "buy comfortably and withdraw from their minds".

This year's National Day Mid-Autumn holiday, Guizhou officially implemented the departure tax refund policy, the first seven tax refund stores began to provide tax refund services for overseas travellers, and the guizhou specialty goods in the store became the "good mind" of foreign tourists.

Tourists from Laos:The departure tax refund policy makes shopping more convenient and cost-effective, and (we) are more willing to take "Guizhou Good Things" home.

In fact, in order to increase the popularity of inbound tourism, Guizhou has already begun to lay out. Since the beginning of this year, Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport has opened 15 international and regional routes, covering key markets such as Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia. The number of entry and exit personnel at Guiyang Port increased by more than 194% year-on-year, and the number of foreigners enjoying the transit visa-free policy increased by more than 240% year-on-year. Nowadays, departure tax refund, transit visa-free and port duty-free shops have formed a "trinity" service pattern, further enhancing Guizhou's international attraction.

Similarly, Jilin Province has also recently officially implemented the foreign travelers' shopping departure tax refund policy, currently having 54 departure tax refund stores.Unlike the traditional "departure gateway row tax refund" model, foreign travelers can directly present documents, shopping invoices and tax refund application forms in Jilin after shopping, staff verification after confirmation, through designated channels to realize "in-time to-account", really realize "buy at any time, return at any time", significantly reduce the cost of time.

Russian tourists from Vasily:During this trip, I experienced the natural and cultural charm of Jilin, and also enjoyed the efficient tax refund service, which was very good. I hope to spend a few more days in Jilin.

(CCTV reporters Wu Hao, Song Wan, Liu Ziyi, Xia Siwei and Zhu Ping)