144 hours, too much, too long......?
During the 2024 holidays, our arrivals and departures have recovered to the same period in 2019. After all, we Chinese are NPCs of world travel - no matter how niche it is, you can find the friendly native voice of Chinese there, even Antarctica.
But recently, Chinese has quietly discovered a more noteworthy thing: the queue of foreigners queuing up at China Customs is getting longer and longer, the plane back to China is full of various races and foreign languages, and more and more foreigners are entering China for tourism! On Yangji, #Chinatravel is becoming a general trend, and when you click on the topic, you feel that you have joined the "Kuakua group" of foreign bloggers.
This is all thanks to the mainland's limited opening of the 144-hour transit visa-free policy for tourists from as many as 54 countries. Take a look! Ooh! The "tourist clown" turned out to be myself.
Xiaohongshu @ Xiaoqiang is not Xiaoqiang
From fast airport light rail, to convenient mobile payments; From Shanghai scallion pancakes to Peking duck; From getting on the plane to boasting "the first time to take such a big plane", to "the cruise ship in the West Lake is so beautiful...... It turns out that China is so "vast and rich" in the eyes of foreigners.
How can the map display the number of seconds at the traffic light?
How can high-speed rail be so cheap and have "incredible speed".
Below: Station B @Hutchinsons so easy
There are so many new energy cars that you can massage on the "best taxi". The nightlife is so plentiful, with neon lights flashing at the shops and square dancing people just a few steps away.
There are also childhood memories of the post-90s generation who kill small snacks.
These things that obviously make us feel ordinary and ordinary, in the eyes of these foreign special forces, are things that break stereotypes and are shocking.
They were curious, nervous, and even scared from the beginning:
Later, it becomes admiration, and the reluctance after 144 hours.
YXH moved these videos to the intranet video website, and we found out that maybe China in the eyes of foreigners, we haven't noticed it.
Merchants who set up shop in Shanghai often measure the number of foreign tourists to China by the percentage of cash they receive, and call this the "cash index".
Shanghai is generally regarded as a "novice village" for foreign tourists to unlock Chinese tourism.
German tourists come to Shanghai and marvel at the clean and tidy roads and the scene of high-rise buildings. After all, the sight near Frankfurt's main train station is 😑 unforgettable, and the clean and tidy urban environment is something you would never have imagined.
The monkey in Mount Emei can finally be cured, lawless for so long, and foreigners who come visa-free for 144 hours are not afraid of you.
A "huhu" fight, trying to defeat magic with magic, this mysterious Western force, finally drove the monkeys who snatched the food of tourists from Mount Emei ten meters away.
There is also Zhangjiajie, the filming location of Avatar, which has become a pilgrimage place for foreign netizens.
Especially the Koreans who love to climb mountains, even regard Zhangjiajie as a check-in place for "the Korean version of not being a hero if you can't reach the Great Wall".
Station B @ South Korea's Oba Zhixian
Over the past few days, almost all of the foreign friends of the natural "E" people have mastered the standard formula for Chinese people to greet when they go out: "Have you eaten?" "Thank you boss" "Can you give me a discount?" ”
However, China's long history and culture, rich geographical features, and huge territory are by no means covered by a 144-hour special forces tour.
Sometimes we look at their ridiculous travel tips and want to reach into the computer screen to help them.
When it is not possible to pay with Apple pay or pos machines, more young people will also use foreign languages to help these foreign friends voluntarily, make guides, make introduction vlogs and post them on social media.
This kind of online "cloud interaction" has also greatly enhanced cross-border cultural exchanges.
Under the topic of #Chinatravel social media traffic password, we see more and more people fall in love with Chinese food, learn Chinese, talk about favorite things, China and foreign countries have a common interest here, these foreign friends pop out vlogs, become China's strongest mouth on the Internet, "China is so good, come back next time!" ”
When the world truly flows, we can see the "sameness" and "difference" between ourselves and the world.
B站@王骁Albert
Even though we feel like we know enough about the country we grew up in and live in day to day, sometimes we can rediscover a lot of overlooked beauty through their lens. Let's go and be an NPC in the world.
Image source: Bilibili / Xiaohongshu / Douyin / INS / Internet