Priority will be given to Hong Kong students who study in mainland universities to enter the Chinese mainland, Secretary of Education of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Christine Choi Yuk-lin announced on Tuesday.
"The Guangdong government has decided to take the group of students who are going to the mainland for tertiary education into special groups that can be exempted from the inbound limitation," said Choi during a news conference on Tuesday.
Currently, the mainland government provides a quota of 2,000 travelers per day for entering the Chinese mainland from Hong Kong via Shenzhen and Zhuhai. Travelers must register online and wait for the random selection. Eight special groups, however, have been exempted from the inbound limitation, including seniors and pregnant women.
As Hong Kong students studying in the mainland will be added to the priority group, more designated quarantine hotel rooms will also be added, said Choi. As was discussed with the Macao SAR government, students may be allowed to enter the mainland via Macao's borders after completing quarantine in Macao.
Inbound travelers to the Chinese mainland are required to spend seven days in a quarantine hotel and three days at home under health monitoring.
