Foreign national arrivals in China are down by about half from their pre-COVID peak. 来斤小仓鼠吧, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Since Xi Jinping came to power in November 2012, China has promoted itself as a destination for foreign tourists and international students. After peaking around 2018–2019, both categories have trended steadily downward and have not recovered to pre-COVID levels. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) claims 132 million inbound tourists in 2024. However, approximately 105 million, roughly 80%, came from Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. These are residents of Chinese-administered or Chinese-claimed territories crossing an internal administrative boundary, many doing so multiple times per year for work, family, or shopping. Stripping those out, China received 32 million genuine international visitors in 2024, a 51%…
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