Travel surge, box office boom: China's hottest holiday week in years

More than 225 million trips were taken this year during China's Spring Festival holiday between January 21 and 27. Traditional festive activities absent in many places amid the past three years' COVID-19 pandemic once again attracted millions of tourists seeking Spring Festival's nostalgic buzz. For those not partial to traveling, cinemas offered rich new choices during the week-long holiday, reaching box office revenue of nearly 6.76 billion yuan ($998.5 million). Also check out the reasons why Spring Festival 2023 was the hottest in years and find out more about this unique holiday.