Advantages and disadvantages of China people's outbound consumption

The cost of outbound tourism cannot be calculated simply by multiplication and division. At present, there is no accurate data or official data on the consumption of China citizens abroad. In recent years, the World Tourism Organization (WTO) has continuously announced China's tourism consumption as an outbound source country, but it is unknown through what channels or ways. According to the data released by the World Tourism Organization in September, 2003, China's outbound tourism expenditure increased from US$ 654.38+US$ 36.5 million to US$ 654.38+US$ 54 million in 2002. At present, some research reports only multiply the amount of foreign exchange that the state allows citizens to carry with them by the number of people who left the country in that year to get the cost of China citizens' overseas travel, which is obviously too simplistic. As a developing country, relying on the advantages of tourism resources, it is undoubtedly very correct to emphasize inbound tourism and continuously expand foreign exchange income from tourism while developing tourism; However, it must be noted that the economic situation in China has changed greatly in the past 20 years, and the balance of payments in China is also very different from that before and at the beginning of the reform and opening up. China countries' foreign exchange reserves have greatly increased, and the situation of foreign exchange shortage has fundamentally changed.

The flow of private foreign exchange can only be guided, not restricted too much. There seems to be nothing unusual about the foreign exchange obtained by nationals from proper channels in consumption abroad. As for some people's unidentified or improper foreign exchange income, or illegal activities of "money laundering" through outbound tourism, it should be another matter. Setting more thresholds to prevent citizens from spending their foreign exchange is actually against the principle of social equity. As for the statement that "the expenditure of outbound tourism has caused the leakage of domestic demand", although it is understandable from the perspective of "patriotism", it obviously confuses the concept, because outbound tourism and domestic tourism cannot completely replace each other. Even if the country completely restricts the national outbound tourism consumption, the national tourism consumption cannot be the sum of the existing outbound tourism consumption and domestic tourism consumption. Although in the balance of payments, national consumption abroad is counted as "foreign exchange leakage", this leakage is normal, reasonable and inevitable.