Why China doesn’t open up outbound travel

The reasons why China does not allow outbound travel are as follows.

1. First, overseas epidemic control is not as strict as domestic control. In the absence of specific drugs, the risk of contracting the epidemic after leaving the country is extremely high, affecting the lives and health of those leaving the country.

2. Second, outbound travel usually does not last too long and will end soon. Chinese citizens who travel abroad still have to return home. Under the current epidemic prevention and control situation, there are fewer flights. It is difficult to find air tickets, which will inevitably further squeeze the ticket purchase quota for people traveling abroad for necessary reasons such as studying abroad, leading to continued price hikes and making it difficult to find a ticket.

3. Third, in the current epidemic situation, cross-border flights may be shut down at any time due to the epidemic. The air tickets that outbound tourists have finally bought when returning to their countries may not be able to return smoothly due to flight shut down at any time, resulting in an increase in the number of people stranded abroad who are infected with the epidemic. Risks include extra expenses caused by exceeding the budget, fines for overstaying due to exceeding the visa stay period, etc.

4. Fourth, when non-essential personnel such as those traveling overseas return to China, it will inevitably increase the pressure on quarantine control at the place of entry, increase the risk of imported epidemics, and add more variables to the domestic epidemic prevention and control situation.