People visit Dounan Flower Market during the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday in Kunming, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Oct. 5, 2023. (Xinhua/Chen Xinbo)
BEIJING, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- The fervor for travel over the ongoing eight-day Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday exemplifies China's strong consumption demand. According to Fliggy, Alibaba's travel platform, orders for domestic trips during the holiday surged nearly 600 percent year on year, and orders for overseas trips skyrocketed more than 2,000 percent.
Tourists visit Xiangdong Street of Xinhua County, central China's Hunan Province, Oct. 2, 2023. (Photo by Wu Yonghua/Xinhua)
Chinese tourists visit the Giza Pyramids scenic spot in Giza, Egypt, Oct. 4, 2023. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa)
People enjoy wine at a chateau in Qingtongxia City, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Oct. 2, 2023. People across the country participate in cultural activities to enrich their holiday life during the National Day holiday. (Xinhua/Yang Zhisen)
Tourists check out in a duty-free shopping mall in Sanya, south China's Hainan Province, Sept. 30, 2023. As a popular tourist destination, Sanya is seeing a tourism boom during the National Day holiday. (Xinhua/Guo Cheng)
