Those sample images of economic activities and mass migrations of people are typically associated with China’s Golden Week holiday, which is built around the October 1 National Day celebrations and coincides with the Mid-Autumn Festival this year, which extended the break to eight days from the usual seven. But those images have special significance this time as this is the first major holiday since the country has brought the coronavirus pandemicunder control.
As the holiday ended on Thursday, tourism officials estimated 637 million domestic trips had been made during the holiday and the tourists’ spending was tallied at 466.56 billion yuan (US$68 billion), higher than expectations as officials previously forecast 550 million trips.
