Shanghai Pudong International Airport Photo: VCG

China's entry-exit passenger trips surged by 30 percent year-on-year in July and August, according to official data released on Tuesday. 

The number is a solid testament to China's unwavering commitment to the opening-up policy and its immense market potential for both inbound and outbound travel, experts said. 

China saw 110 million entry-exit passenger trips in July and August, up 30 percent year-on-year and up 13 percent from the May-June period, according to the National Immigration Administration (NIS) on Tuesday. 

The increase can be attributed to the implementation of favorable policies such as mutual visa exemptions and the 144-hour visa-free transit policy, which made it more convenient for both Chinese and foreign tourists to travel, experts said. 

During this summer, on average 1.779 million entry-exit trips were made per day. The highest daily entries and exits occurred on August 24, with 2.237 million passenger trips, reaching 97.2 percent of the historical peak.

Chinese mainland residents made a total of 55.381 million entry-exit trips, up 28.1 percent from a year earlier. Residents of the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions and the island of Taiwan had 44.032 million entries and exits, a 27.6 percent year-on-year increase.

There was also a significant rise in entries and exits by foreign nationals, with a total of 10.89 million trips recorded, up 52.8 percent year-on-year. 

Alina, a visitor from Canada, told the Global Times that she had visited six destinations in China, including Zhangjiajie in Central China's Hunan Province and Lijiang in Southwest China's Yunnan Province, and all six destinations exceeded her expectations.

"I was very impressed with how much technology and infrastructure China has built in the past few decades and what a wide range of things there are to see and to do in the country," Alina said.

The explosive growth of entry-exit trips during the summer vacation, especially the surge in the number of foreign visitors, helped to improve the domestic consumer market and strengthen international trade and cooperation, Li Chang'an, a professor at the Academy of China Open Economy Studies at the University of International Business and Economics, told the Global Times on Tuesday.

In July, the recovery of consumer demand continued, with the implementation of policies to boost domestic demand and promote consumption. Retail sales rose 2.7 percent year-on-year, accelerating by 0.7 percentage points from June.