Shanghai, China - March 29, 2026 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Various of cruise ships at port
2. Various of travelers getting off cruise ship, passing through immigration check
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Russian tourist (name not given):
"Immigration service, very good, very fast. Everything very quick."
4. Travelers waiting for immigration check
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Russian tourist (name not given)(starting with shot 4):
"We going to Disneyland, it's a cool trip."
6. Various of travelers, immigration officers
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Canadian tourist (name not given)(ending with shots 8-9):
"Very good, excellent policy and anything that reduces the amount of time. We had ten days in China already."
8. Sign of arrival
9. Various of travelers
10. Cruise ships at port

Shanghai welcomed two more cruise ships on Sunday, lifting the total at Wusongkou International Cruise Terminal to three, as inbound tourism booms under China's new visa-free and travel facilitation measures.

The newly arrived ships, MSC Magnifica and Adora Magic City, joined Mein Schiff 6, which had docked a day earlier at the Shanghai Wusongkou International Cruise Terminal.

During the weekend, cruise ports in Shanghai handled over 20,000 inbound and outbound passengers, with foreign nationals accounting for more than half of the total.

"Immigration service, very good, very fast. Everything very quick," said a Russian tourist.

"We going to Disneyland, it's a cool trip," said another Russian tourist.

China’s expanded visa-free entry is reshaping inbound travel. Since February, ordinary passport holders from Canada and the UK have been exempted, and arrivals from both countries have climbed sharply.

"Very good, excellent policy and anything that reduces the amount of time. We had ten days in China already," said a Canadian tourist.

Shanghai’s ports have already processed more than 10 million passenger trips this year, up 2.9 percent from 2025, underscoring sustained growth in cross-border movement. China now offers unilateral visa exemption to 50 countries, mutual visa-free access with 29, and 240-hour transit privileges to travelers from 55 nations, a policy framework that is reshaping inbound tourism at scale.