Hong Kong is aiming to reopen its border with China by mid-January, city leader John Lee announced on Saturday after returning from meetings in Beijing.
The border has been effectively shut for nearly three years while China enforced a zero-COVID strategy of snap lockdowns, travel restrictions and mass testing that battered the world's second-largest economy.
"The central government has agreed to the full reopening of the border in a gradual and orderly manner," he told reporters at the airport. Xi said he "fully affirmed" the work of Lee's administration and praised him for safeguarding national security and reviving the local economy.
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