Macao recorded around 248,000 visitor arrivals on Saturday, the second day of the Chinese mainland’s ongoing five-day Labor Day holiday period, once again setting a new record of a single-day number of visitor arrivals, according to the Public Security Police (PSP).

In a statement released on its WeChat account on Sunday, the PSP said the new record represented a 9.25 percent increase from the previous record set on February 19 this year, the third day of the Chinese New Year of the Horse, when over 227,000 visitor arrivals were recorded.

Visitor arrivals from the Chinese mainland accounted for 85 percent of the around 248,000 visitor arrivals recorded on Saturday, while those from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Taiwan region, and foreign countries respectively made up 10, one, and four percent of the total, the PSP statement said.

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According to historical data from the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO), the previous record of single-day number of visitor arrivals set on the third day of the Year of the Horse (227,917) had itself broken the preceding record set on the third day of the Year of the Pig in pre-pandemic 2019, at 226,326.

The ongoing five-day Labor Day holiday period started on Friday and ends tonight.

According to PSP daily immigration statistics released during the period, Macao recorded 203,006 on the first day of this year’s five-day Labor Day holiday period, 247,729 on the second day, and 182,216 on the third day.

Meanwhile, Sunday’s PSP statement also announced that Macao recorded 889,000 entries and exits at its border checkpoints on Saturday, also setting a new record of a single-day number of border crossings, breaking the previous record of 867,000 set on February 7 this year.

According to the statement, the number of border crossings at the Barrier Gate checkpoint on Saturday accounted for 50.6 percent of the total, while the Hengqin checkpoint, the Qingmao checkpoint, and the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge’s (HZMB) Macao checkpoint respectively made up 16.6 percent, 15.0 percent, and 11.0 percent.

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The entry and exit (border crossings) figures recorded by the Public Security Police, which run Macao’s immigration service, comprise local residents, visitors, non-resident workers (NRWs), non-local students enrolled in Macao, and all others with a special permit to stay in Macao.

On Saturday, according to Sunday’s PSP statement, local residents accounted for 27.5 percent of the total number of border crossings at all checkpoints, while non-resident workers and visitors respectively made up 17.4 percent and 53.4 percent.

The statement also said that Macao’s border-crossing figures on Saturday also broke another type of record, when the Macao-Hengqin joint checkpoint recorded nearly 148,000 entries and exits, 693 border crossers more than the previous record of around 147,000 set on New Year’s Day this year.

The Macau Post Daily is a media partner of China Daily.