Passengers leave a ferry connecting China and South Korea at a Lianyungang port in East China's Jiangsu Province on July 6, 2025. In the first half of this year, the province's ports had a total of 2.387 million passengers entering and leaving the country, a year-on-year increase of 5.5 percent. Among them, 223,000 were foreign tourists, a year-on-year increase of 28.3 percent. Photo: VCG