Southbound Travel for Guangdong Vehicles scheme extended to five additional cities from Saturday, with daily quota of urban trips doubling to 200
3-MIN READ3-MIN ListenWynna WongandCannix YauPublished: 4:56pm, 25 Jul 2026Updated: 4:57pm, 25 Jul 2026Close to 170 mainland Chinese motorists are expected to arrive in Hong Kong on Saturday under an expanded cross-border travel scheme, with hotels rolling out accommodation, dining, shopping and parking packages to attract the new visitors.
The Southbound Travel for Guangdong Vehicles scheme was extended to cover five more cities – Shenzhen, Foshan, Dongguan, Huizhou and Zhaoqing – from Saturday, with the daily quota of urban trips doubling to 200.
A total of nine mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area are now eligible, comprising the five new additions and the original four of Guangzhou, Zhuhai, Jiangmen and Zhongshan.
Secretary for Transport and Logistics Mable Chan said authorities received three times as many applications under the expanded scheme as the available quota.
“The response has been very encouraging,” Chan said at the scheme’s launch ceremony at the Hong Kong port of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge.
“Of the applications received, 60 per cent came from the five newly added cities.”
