Shotlist Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, east China - Recent (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland) 1. Various of planes parking, taxiing at airport 2. Various of passengers waiting in line 3. Various of channels for foreigners, Chinese citizens 4. Various of passengers waiting in line 5. Passengers talking with border inspection officers 6. Foreign passenger completing procedures 7. Foreign travel group Storyline Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, reported 84,000 entries of foreigners coming under the visa-free policy in 2025, a 212-percent increase from 2024, according to the city's border inspection station. The border inspection station also said that in 2025, the airports in Nanjing inspected a total of 20,300 inbound and outbound flights and nearly three million inbound and outbound passengers, representing year-on-year increases of 2.9 percent and 4.49 percent, respectively. In 2025, Nanjing launched new flights to and from multiple cities across the world, including Paris and Bangkok. The city's inbound travel boom is a result of China's broader effort to attract more foreign travelers to the country. China saw 40.6 million inbound arrivals in 2025 since rolling out its 240-hour visa-free transit program, up 27.2 percent year on year, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Public Security announced on Thursday. The spokesperson added that travelers using the visa-free scheme jumped 60.8 percent year on year compared with pre-policy revision levels. First launched in December 2024, the program now applies to 55 eligible countries.