Hong Kong and the mainland will have an orderly and comprehensive customs clearance on January 8 at the earliest. On January 3, the Hong Kong section of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link began trial operation, and the trains departed for mainland stations according to the schedule. At present, several staff members are on duty at the entrance and near the ticket vending machines at the West Kowloon Station of the High Speed Rail. The gate machines, ticketing machines and other equipment are in the debugging stage. There are also workers cleaning the glass curtain wall of West Kowloon Station. Previously, West Kowloon Station had been closed for nearly three years following the outage of the Hong Kong section of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link. The restart of the station also means that customs clearance is not far away. Prior to this, Hong Kong Chief Executive Lee Ka-chao also publicly stated that he would strive to achieve customs clearance before January 15.
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The Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong high-speed rail is an important part of China’s high-speed rail network and a part of the Beijing-Hong Kong high-speed rail. At the end of September 2018, the Hong Kong section of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link opened for operation. Since then, various EMUs have begun to travel between Hong Kong and Guangzhou. Although the total length of the Hong Kong section is only 26 kilometers, it makes the connection between Hong Kong and the mainland more convenient. The meaning behind it Unusual, until the pandemic started suspending operations. Now, after three years, the Hong Kong section has started trial operation, indicating that the day of customs clearance between Hong Kong and the mainland is approaching, and normal business travel between the two places can finally resume.
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