“Smart Immigration Clearance” Launched at Hengqin Port Facilitating Flow of People between Macao and Hengqin

“Smart Immigration Clearance” Launched at Hengqin Port Facilitating Flow of People between Macao and Hengqin

President Xi Jinping emphasized during his inspection to Macao and the Guangdong-Macao In-depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin late last year the importance of “playing a role in executing early and pilot implementation” and “bringing the integration of Hengqin and Macao to a higher level”. To implement the spirit of those important instructions, the Public Security Police Force, the Public Security Forces Affairs Bureau, the Zhuhai General Station of Exit and Entry Frontier Inspection and the Economic Development Bureau of the Guangdong-Macao In-depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin complete the software and hardware upgrade of the 48 “joint inspection automated channels” at the Passenger Inspection Hall and the 16 “joint inspection automated channels” at the Immigration Clearance Hall for On-board Passengers of the Hengqin Port together, hence launching the “Smart Immigration Clearance” (Document-free Immigration Clearance) service on 5 November 2025 to provide convenient immigration clearance with “face scan” instead of “card scan”.
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