Analysis of arrivals at Lowu from 7 to 13 April 1980 of travellers holding travel documents issued in the People's Republic of China
Within this period 877 documents were recorded, covering 1,098 travellers. The great majority were valid for return : of the 74 single journey permits recorded in this period, 43 were issued in places in Guangdong province other than Guangzhou; 7 were issued in Guangzhou, 3 in Hubei and 21 in Fujian. Permits were issued for varying periods of validity (in the case of single journey permits the period refers to the time within which the permit had to be used). Of the 877 :
(7%) were valid for 3 months when issued
64
154
(18%)
"
11
6
11
516 (59%) 143 (16%)
#1
#
1 year
11
#
11
11
more than one year
Within this period 43% of the permits issued in Fujian province were valid for more than 1 year and 40% for one year. 99.5% of the permits issued in Guangzhou were valid for one year.
The place of issue of the 877 permits was as follows :
2.
250
(29%)
places in Guangdong other than Guangzhou
224
(26%
Guangzhou
265
(30%)
Fujian province
38
(4%)
Jiangsu province
100
(11%)
19 other provinces
During this period only 14 'pink' permits were issued. All were from Yunnan.
3.
Most of the permits were issued in the month prior to
the travellers' arrival in Hong Kong :
(38%) issued in April 1980
335
411
(47%)
85
(9.7%)
12
1.4%)
"1
11
1.3%)
11
13
1.5%)
#1
10 (1.2%)
11
" March 1980 "February 1980 "January 1980 "December 1979
" November 1979
between July and October 1979
Prepared by
Immigration Department
Hong Kong
1-5-80