A romantic coastal self-drive route along Lovers Avenue in Zhuhai city - located in South China's Guangdong province - recently received a new accolade.

The Wanzai Checkpoint in Zhuhai recorded a cross-border cumulative visitor volume of over 600,000 in the year to date as of July 28 - overtaking the annual volume of 540,000 people for 2022 and showing a year-on-year increase during the period of about 3.5 times.

As of Monday, 500,000 vehicles from the two special administrative regions have entered or left the mainland via the bridge.

Owners of single-plate vehicles in Hong Kong have been eligible to apply for permits to enter Guangdong Province since June 1.

The 1,600 applicants were selected through "computer ballot" from more than 16,000 hopefuls who signed up.

The Gongbei Checkpoint Duty-Free Store for Arrivals, the largest one of its kind among Asian land-border checkpoints, met the public.

During this May Day holiday, Xiangzhou saw a remarkable surge in tourist numbers, with major scenic spots receiving a total of 2.063 million visitors.

The charted bus route connecting Hong Kong and Zhuhai's Xiangzhou district began operation on April 11, with its first bus on the route transporting 21 hi-tech enterprise representatives from Hong Kong and Macao to Xiangzhou via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge.