A Chinese think tank is urging the country to offer foreign visitors domestically made phones packed with local apps at border entry points, allowing inbound tourists access to payment and reservation tools that devices made overseas often lack.
Inbound travellers should be able to borrow low-end 4G or 5G handsets near immigration checkpoints, such as airports, the Straits Urban Research Institute recommended in a commentary. The phones would come with eSIM cards plus pre-installed apps that could be used to show maps, process e-payments, book hotels and make emergency calls, it said.
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