Hong Kong legislators have known as for facial recognition know-how to be adopted on the upgraded Huanggang land crossing whereas giving an preliminary inexperienced mild to a HK$1.75 billion (US$223 million) authorities proposal to web site border clearance amenities within the advanced.
At a gathering of the Legislative Council’s safety panel on Monday, some lawmakers additionally expressed concern that the expanded Huanggang checkpoint, which was designed to deal with 200,000 passengers and 15,000 automobiles day by day between Hong Kong and Shenzhen, may overload close by site visitors.
Along with co-location preparations that permit travellers to clear immigration channels in each jurisdictions at a single web site, Secretary for Safety Chris Tang Ping-keung informed the panel {that a} new clearance mannequin can be adopted.
The 2 governments would arrange counters facet by facet contained in the port to boost border clearance effectivity, he stated.
The “collaborative inspection and joint clearance” mannequin, at the moment used at some checkpoints between Macau and Zhuhai, will permit travellers to queue as soon as for immigration clearance, shortening the time from round half an hour to 5 minutes.
“These efforts intention to facilitate the environment friendly and clean circulate of individuals and items, and thus strengthen the connectivity between Hong Kong and different cities within the Larger Bay Space,” Tang stated.
