On the 30-minute ferry ride from Xiamen's Wutong ferry terminal to Kinmen, an elderly mainland Chinese tourist takes a nap while his female companion looks out the window as the boat crosses from Chinese to Taiwanese territory in the Taiwan Strait. The ferries were launched as part of the 'Mini-Three-Links' between China and Taiwan in 2001. More than 1.5 million passengers traveled by ferry in 2014 between Fujian, in China, and Kinmen. Since 2015, Chinese tourists traveling to Kinmen can easily get visas on arrival, a move to encourage mainland Chinese tourism.
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