Beijing Capital and Tianjin airports boost police presence during 2026 National Day

Based on · First reported 5 Oct 2026 · Updated 5 Oct 2026

During the 2026 National Day holiday, traffic and passenger flow rose sharply at Beijing Capital and Tianjin airports, and the Beijing Capital International Airport Police Bureau kept a “people over holidays, police on duty” policy while strengthening overall security and traffic control; police forces at Beijing Capital, Daxing and Tianjin airports were maximized to improve road traffic efficiency, and police chief Li Dong highlighted the use of armed patrols, video monitoring and community prevention to align deployment with traffic flow.
On 1 October, police officer Li Zhichuan guided dozens of domestic and international passengers in Terminal 2’s arrivals hall for about an hour; on the evening of 2 October, a man was detained for illegally picking up passengers in the corridor to Terminal 3’s parking lot as part of a crackdown that also led to the arrest of one “甩客” driver and several other irregular operators; on 4 October, a passenger’s lost backpack was recovered and returned within 30 minutes through the lost‑item recovery mechanism, with an average of 15 lost‑item incidents reported per day.

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