HONG KONG, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- More than 980,000 Chinese mainland visitors arrived in Hong Kong between Oct. 1 and Oct. 5, up 35 percent from the same period last year, according to the Immigration Department of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government on Sunday.
Benson Kwok, director of Immigration of the HKSAR government, said on Sunday that more than 220,000 mainland visitors arrived in Hong Kong on Oct. 1, National Day, a significant increase compared with about 177,000 on the same day last year.
