New Year travel, spending top pre-Covid levels in China


A woman poses for a picture in front of a dragon installation outside a store at a business district on the ninth day of the Lunar New Year of the Dragon in Chengdu, China's Sichuan province on February 18, 2024. (Photo by WANG Zhao / AFP)

Beijing: Chinese travel and spending during the Lunar New Year holiday exceeded levels from before the pandemic, adding to signs that consumption in the world’s second-largest economy is improving.

Some 474 million tourist trips were made around the country during the festival, which began Feb 10 and concluded Saturday.

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