THE “Golden Week” is the People's Republic of China's most extended holiday. Every year the Chinese celebrate the establishment of the People’s Republic of China on 1 October 1949. This year, the Mid-Autumn Festival fell on 29 September which combined with the National Day Golden Week for a long, 8-day holiday from September 29 to October 6. Traditionally, Chinese people use the week-long holiday to travel for leisure and visit their families in other parts of China resulting in the world’s largest migration in the year.
This year was no exception as a total of 826 million trips were made in mainland China during the Golden Week. This was 4.1% more than the Golden Week in 2019 before the pandemic, according to data released by the Ministry of Culture and…
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Cape Times (Digital) - 1 Issue, 2023-10-23