On October 25, 2021, at the No. 247 press conference of Beijing on COVID-19 prevention and control, Xu Hejian, Deputy Director General of the Publicity Department of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee and spokesman of the Information Office of the People's Government of Beijing Municipality, released measures on adjusting and strengthening the epidemic prevention and control efforts of the coordinated prevention and control mechanism for strict control of entry to Beijing.

First, movement in and out of Beijing will be minimized. Individuals in Beijing shall not leave the city unless for essential trips.  People are also advised not to travel to medium and high-risk prefecture-level cities with recently reported confirmed cases. Party and government institutions, state-owned enterprises, and military should strengthen daily pandemic prevention management, screening, and outbound trip approval, implement the responsibility system for application and approval. Inbound individuals from major places and sectors should take nucleic acid tests upon arrival in Beijing, and only return to work with a negative result.

Second, Beijing will continue to restrict entry from places with confirmed cases. Individuals coming from or have been to any county (city, district, banner) with one or more confirmed cases within the past 14 days are not allowed to enter Beijing. And no green code from the "Health Kit" should be granted to them as per Beijing's pandemic prevention requirements. Those who are from any prefecture-level city (county, city and district of a municipality or sub-provincial city) with at least one local confirmed case are not recommended to enter or return to Beijing unless for essential trips. Anyone entering Beijing for emergency reasons must present the green-code status of the "Health Kit" plus a negative nucleic acid test result within 48 hours of their arrival, and undergo a 14-day health monitoring.

Third, there will be strict examination of the "Health Kit". Officials at airports, train stations and long-distance coach stations in China should check  the "Health Kit" of people traveling to Beijing, and not allow passengers without the green code to board. Individuals without the "Health Kit" should download it and have their code checked when using public transportation. Seniors, children and people with vision or hearing impairment, can display their negative result of the nucleic acid test taken within the last 48 hours, or the code status of their companies, to facilitate the travel of people who do not or cannot use smartphones.

Fourth, regulation on traveling in and out of Beijing will be strengthened. Residents in Beijing should avoid travelling outside Beijing in principle and the city's scenic spots should limit the number of visitors. Inter-provincial tourism should be suspended, and tour groups that have already been outside Beijing should strengthen their epidemic prevention measures. International tourism should remain suspended .

Fifth, there will be an implementation of strict epidemic prevention regulations for conferences and forums. Conferences and forums should not be held if not necessary, and conferences via internet are recommended, so as to minimize the scale of in-person activities and reduce the number of participants entering Beijing. For essential conferences, those who organize and approve them should bear the responsibilities. The regulations of COVID-19 prevention and control should be strictly followed. The Beijing Marathon, which was to take place on October 31, has been postponed indefinitely.

Sixth, strict prevention and control measures will be implemented in public places. Visits to indoor and outdoor cultural and entertainment places such as parks, theaters, museums should be reduced to 75 percent of the standard capacity. Chess rooms, mahjong rooms and other places in communities should be closed. In all kinds of indoor and outdoor public places such as commercial buildings, supermarkets, restaurants, hotels and various stores, pandemic prevention measures such as health code registration, body temperature checking, wearing masks, "one-meter line social distance", cleaning and disinfection, traffic restriction and staggering are to be strictly implemented. It is also crucial to conduct orderly queuing and guidance to avoid crowding and gathering.

Seventh, four-party responsibility mechanism (district or community, employer, department, individual) shall be strictly enacted. All kinds of employers in Beijing should strengthen the regulation and investigate confirmed COVID-19 cases of their employees. Those who enter Beijing from abroad, have lived in high-risk areas and have close contact with people, regions and places exposed to the coronavirus should be inspected and reported.  Those responsible for such links found guilty of dereliction of duty will bear the consequences. 

Individuals should strictly implement the normal pandemic prevention and control requirements, and take them seriously. Those who have travelled to pandemic-related areas or have had close contact with people in those areas should fulfill their obligation of pandemic prevention and control such as report in time, take a PCR test and undergo health monitoring for a stipulated period of time. Those who do not abide by the regulation of pandemic prevention and control, and those who deliberately conceal their travel history, and suspected contact with individuals exposed to COVID-19 will face legal action, and will be publicly informed to raise the social awareness of active epidemic prevention.