An extended travel ban imposed by the Philippines will have a “negative impact” on the economy, according to a Chinese Ambassador.
The Chinese Ambassador on Tuesday said at the 5th Association for Philippine-China Understanding (APCU) forum in Ortigas, Pasig City, that an extended travel ban imposed by the Philippines will have a “negative impact” on the economy.
Huang Xilian, a Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines, on Tuesday noted that China was the Philippines’ top trading partner and the largest source of imports as well as the third export market.
This, after the Philippines banned all travel to and from China, Hong Kong, and Macau, as part of the country’s safety measures in order to prevent the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus, named COVID-19.
Huang Xilian echoed the opinion of Sharon Garin, a representative of Aambis-Owa party-list who was the chair of the House economic affairs committee, that the contribution of Chinese tourists was “actually 2.2 percent of Philippines’ gross domestic product,” thus, “the epidemic will have a big impact on the country’s economy.”
Chinese Ambassador Huang Xilian also mentioned the report from the Department of Tourism, noting that the local tourism industry was expected to lose an estimated PHP 42.9 billion from February to April of 2020.
He added that the Philippines could fight COVID-19 “in a calm way while taking measures to avoid interruption of the people-to-people exchanges and trade cooperation between the two nations.”
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