Beijing sees strong recovery in Spring Festival tourist visits


A visitor takes photos during an ox-themed exhibition welcoming the Year of the Ox at the National Museum of China in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 10, 2021. (Photo by Hu Zhixuan/Xinhua)

BEIJING, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Tourists are swarming back to Beijing's major attractions, with the visitor numbers during the first three days of the Spring Festival holiday bouncing back to 91 percent of the 2019 level despite stringent anti-epidemic measures in place.

The city's 147 key tourist spots saw about 2.76 million visits between Feb. 11 and 13, with Wangfujing shopping street topping the chart with 360,000 tourist arrivals, said the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism.

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