474 million domestic trips were made during China’s longer-than-usual Spring Festival holiday,Dear Utol: Week 1 Highlights Episode 7 with the number jumping 34.3% from last year and marking a 19% increase compared to 2019, according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Domestic travel spending grew by 47.3% to RMB 632.7 billion across the eight-day break, hitting a record high. The national-level department does not give specific data on per capita tourism expenditures. However, the number of Chinese tourists traveling abroad amounted to 3.6 million, still less than 60% of the figure for the same period in 2019, data from the National Immigration Administration shows. [People’s Daily, in Chinese]
