Contestants participate in a dragon boat race on Songhua River in Jilin City, northeast China’s Jilin Province, June 10, 2024. (Xinhua/Yan Linyun)
BEIJING, June 11 (Xinhua) — With surging trips and tourism spending, China’s just finished Dragon Boat Festival holiday reflected a robust consumer market and steady economic recovery. Here are some notable facts and figures about the three-day holiday ending Monday.
Some 110 million domestic tourist trips were made during the period, up 6.3 percent year on year. The related consumption totaled 40.35 billion yuan (about 5.67 billion U.S. dollars), up 8.1 percent, according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
Data from the Ministry of Transport showed nearly 637.62 million…