BEIJING, April 26 -- More than 7 million border crossings were recorded in Beijing in 2026 as of Sunday morning, a 13% rise from a year earlier, according to official data.

This year, the number of exits and entries by foreign nationals at Beijing ports had surpassed 2.28 million as of Sunday morning, up 34 percent from the same period of 2025, according to the Beijing General Station of Exit and Entry Frontier Inspection.

As of Saturday, about 828,000 foreign arrivals at Beijing ports this year had entered under visa-free or temporary entry permit policies, accounting for over 70 percent of all foreign entrants.

The recent surge in Beijing's inbound tourism is partly attributable to the continuous optimization of visa-free policies. T...