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By NewsChina Updated Dec.1

Chinese tourists have hit the road again. During the National Day holiday (October 1-8), hundreds of millions of people in China packed highways, trains and planes to tourist destinations across the country.　

This year’s National Day overlapped with the Mid-Autumn festival, extending the holiday period to eight days from the usual seven, making it longer than the Spring Festival holiday, the country’s most important festival. China clocked more than 637 million tourist visits over the eight days, data from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism showed. The government estimates domestic tourism generated around 466 billion yuan (US$68.6b) in revenue during the holiday period.　

Besides the major tourist cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu (Sichuan Province), Sanya (Hainan Province) and Kunming (Yunnan Province), Central China’s Hubei Province, the frst epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic, also showed a recovery. The province saw more than 52.2 million tourists over the holiday, around 82 percent of last year’s numbers, taking in 34.8 billion yuan (US$5.17b) in revenue, data from the provincial tourism department showed. The Yellow Crane Tower, a landmark of the provincial capital Wuhan, was a popular scenic spot during the holiday.

Tourists crowd on Qiansimen Bridge to view the skyline in Chongqing, October 3

Tourists take selfies in front of Tiananmen Gate, Beijing, October 3

A hot-air balloon launch kicks off a series of scheduled holiday events at Evergreen Park in downtown Haikou, capital of South China’s Hainan Province, October 1

Tourists watch a light show projected on the Yellow Crane Tower, a landmark tourist attraction in Wuhan, Hubei Province, October 7

Tourists watch a laser show as armed police patrol The Bund, Shanghai, October 1

Tourists on camelback visit the Crescent Spring scenic spot at the foot of the Mingsha Mountains near Dunhuang, Gansu Province, October 4

Throngs of tourists crowd a bottlenecked section of the Great Wall at Badaling, Beijing after tickets sold out during the holiday, October 4

A young tourist wears flags in her hair as she leaves the Forbidden City, October 6

Visitors walk on a raised path in the Red Beach Wetlands, Panjin, Liaoning Province, October 5

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