The Qingming Festival holiday wrapped up on a high note for cross-border connectivity in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, as the Zhuhai port of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge notched an unprecedented milestone in cross-border vehicle traffic. Data released by local border inspection authorities confirms that Monday, the final day of the 2026 three-day holiday, saw a historic peak in daily vehicle volumes passing through the port, marking a clear upward trajectory in cross-border travel and exchange across the Greater Bay Area.
On that record-breaking Monday alone, border inspection personnel processed 29,800 inbound and outbound vehicles passing through the Zhuhai port. Of this total, 22,800 were Hong Kong and Macao single-plate vehicles — a classification for vehicles registered only in the two special administrative regions that are permitted to cross into the Chinese mainland. Both the overall daily vehicle count and the volume of Hong Kong and Macao single-plate vehicles shattered previous records set since the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge opened to commercial traffic in 2018.
Across the full three-day holiday period, the cumulative number of inbound and outbound vehicles passing through the Zhuhai port surpassed 77,400. This total placed the port at the top of all land border ports across China for holiday vehicle traffic volume, outperforming every other cross-border crossing nationwide.
Further analysis of the traffic data highlights a major shift in cross-border travel patterns: Hong Kong and Macao residents driving personal vehicles into the Chinese mainland have emerged as the dominant driving force behind the port’s growing vehicle flow. Single-plate vehicles from the two special administrative regions accounted for 80.3 percent of all small passenger vehicles processed through the port during the holiday, underscoring rising demand for convenient cross-border travel, family visits, tourism and short business trips between the mainland, Hong Kong and Macao. This unprecedented traffic milestone also reflects the deepening economic and people-to-people integration that continues to reshape the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, one of China’s most dynamic regional economic clusters.