Popular tourist site: People thronging the Great Wall at the start of the five-day Labour Day break in Beijing. — AFP
Beijing: Millions of travellers criss-crossed China as the Labour Day holiday got underway, packing out tourist sites, thronging restaurants and visiting family as the vast country edges towards life after Covid-19.
The world’s second largest economy is expecting some 265 million journeys by road, train or boat during the five-day holiday, a transport ministry official said this week –numbers last seen in 2019 before the coronavirus struck.
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