The Nanjing Lukou International Airport has got ready for the arrival of passengers from home and abroad for the upcoming Spring Festival Holiday, as is evidenced by the slogan “welcome home” in the customs inspection zone which has immersed the airport with the festival mood.
Spring Festival is a traditional time for Chinese people to return home for family reunions. Many people also make overseas trips for sightseeing during the seven-day holiday.
Border control authorities across the country are required to launch a theme activity on welcome home, according to a notice issued by the National Immigration Administration.
The Nanjing immigration border checkpoint has installed duty zones, inquiry desks, photo walls and message boards to await the arrival of the passengers.
Calligraphers have been invited to make on-site creations to write Chinese the character Fu and the spring couplets so as to give heartfelt greetings to the passengers entering and leaving the city and provide best possible environment for customs clearance.
Zhao Yuanyuan, Nanjing immigration border checkpoint
We have launched the welcome home
theme activity during the spring festival
travel rush by giving the Chinese character Fu
and the spring couplets to
the passengers entering Nanjing
We have also filmed videos blessing
the Chinese New Year in local
dialects of Jiangsu so as to give
them to the overseas Chinese
and pass them the warmth from the hometown
The Nanjing border control authority has also teamed up with Canadian Chinese Association of Jiangsu Natives to release a video clip at a spring festival gala in Canada. In the specially filmed video, the border control officers who are from Jiangsu spoke in their local dialects to bless the overseas Chinese a happy Chinese New Year.
Hu Qiquan, Chinese Consulate General in Vancouver
On behalf of the Chinese Consulate General in Vancouver
I wish the folks in Jiangsu
a happy Chinese New Year
I also wish the motherland prosperity
Meng Ran, honorary chairperson, Canadian Chinese Association of Jiangsu Natives
I often return to my home country
especially my hometown of Nanjing
Every time I return to my hometown of Nanjing
I am deeply impressed by the enthusiastic
and professional service of
the Chinese border inspection
On the occasion of the Chinese New Year
I sincerely wish China’s border control officers
a happy family and a happy new year
I wish my motherland prosperity
I wish my hometown Jiangsu a better tomorrow
Members of the Canadian Chinese Association of Jiangsu Natives
Bless Jiangsu a better tomorrow
and bless the motherland prosperity
