Beijing 15th Five-Year Open Economy Plan: Enriching Inbound Tourism Products

Key points

• The plan calls for fully utilizing unilateral visa-free entry, mutual visa exemption, 240-hour transit visa-free entry, and port group tourist visa policies to enrich inbound tourism products and itineraries and optimize the inbound consumption environment.
• The plan promotes high-quality development of services trade and digital trade, coordinated development of Beijing's international air passenger and cargo transport, and an improved international air express network.
• The plan calls for expanding departure tax-refund store coverage, promoting "buy now, refund now," accelerating construction of a globally influential cultural trade platform, and guiding enterprises to participate in the national "Thousand Sails Going Global" cultural trade action plan.
• The plan promotes medical travel service exports and pilots integrated development of traditional Chinese medicine service consumption and trade.
• The plan proposes building an international consumption experience zone integrating consumption, social interaction, leisure, culture, and ecology, and building a sports event system with international influence.
• The plan calls for creating a "Beijing MICE" brand, building MICE industry clusters, planning key venue development with "one venue, one policy," and cultivating brand MICE projects with "one industry, one exhibition."