Cities across China are experiencing a significant tourism boom as the three-day Qingming Festival holiday coincides with the first-ever student spring breaks in multiple cities, creating an extended travel period for many families. Qingming Festival, or Tomb-Sweeping Day, falls on April 5 this year. It is a traditional Chinese festival for honoring the deceased and…
South China’s Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) recorded a total import and export value of 1.57 trillion yuan (about 227.65 billion U.S. dollars) in the first two months of this year, marking a year-on-year surge of 22.4 percent, according to the Guangdong branch of the General Administration of Customs of China (GACC). The pace…
China’s online transactions saw a remarkable increase in both volume and value during the just-concluded Spring Festival holiday, data from the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) showed on Tuesday. From Feb 15 to 23, Chinese online payment-clearing house NetsUnion Clearing Corporation and card payment giant China UnionPay processed approximately 39.3 billion online transactions totaling 13.12…
China saw a total of 17.796 million cross-border trips during the nine-day Spring Festival holiday period ending on Monday, official data showed. According to data released by the National Immigration Administration, border authorities recorded an average of 1.977 million trips per day during the holiday, up 10.1 percent year on year on a daily basis….
Chinese travelers made an estimated 362.58 million cross-regional passenger trips on Monday, the last day of the Spring Festival holiday, representing a 4.7-percent daily decline from Sunday and an 11.9-percent increase from the last day of the holiday last year. On Monday, the country’s railway system handled an estimated 18.5 million passenger trips, up 1.2…
Chinese cinemas are boosting the holiday economy through various marketing and promotion campaigns during the Spring Festival movie season. The nine-day holiday, the longest Spring Festival movie season in history, has delivered a vibrant screening feast of comedies, action films, animations, and sci-fi productions to audiences nationwide. As of Saturday, the 2026 Spring Festival box…
Foreign visitors and local residents have been hitting the shops and snapping up a range of sci-tech goods in China’s Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area as many look to offer gifts to their family and friends during the upcoming Spring Festival. The festive spirit is growing ahead of the Spring Festival, China’s most important annual…
Southern China’s Great Bay Area on Sunday launched the first nighttime high-speed train service to ease the mounting pressure of the 40-day Spring Festival travel rush for 2026, which officially started a week ago. At 22:12 on Sunday, the first overnight train departed from the bustling Guangzhou South Railway Station in Guangdong Province, transporting a…
The nine cities of Guangdong Province in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) saw their foreign trade surpass 9 trillion yuan (about 1.29 trillion U.S. dollars) in 2025, hitting a record high. The nine GBA mainland cities recorded imports and exports totaling 9.15 trillion yuan (about 1.31 trillion U.S. dollars) in 2025, a year-on-year…
China on Friday launched its first cross-province and cross-sea tourist train, linking the southwest Qinghai-Xizang Plateau with the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and Hainan ahead of the 2026 Spring Festival travel season. During the 14-day journey, the train will take tourists on a route combining rail, road, and sea, allowing them to explore iconic…