Hong Kong CNN —With Hong Kong’s sky-high cost of living, residents like Andy Tsui have been looking for alternative ways to have more fun and spend less.
Rather than spending his cash in his hometown of Hong Kong, he’s been crossing the border into mainland China to splurge instead.
Such trips are noteworthy because, for much of Hong Kong’s modern history, the traffic has been largely — conspicuously, even — in the other direction.
Hong Kong used to be the place where Chinese would escape to, not from.
In 2023, just 26 million mainlanders — about half of the 2018 crowd — visited Hong Kong.
Persons:
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Organizations:
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Locations:
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