China Pictures - 2.79 Mln Tourists Visit Shanghai in Spring Festival -

More than 2.79 million tourists visited Shanghai during the week-long Spring Festival holiday which began on Feb. 18, a year-on-year inruckle of 12.98 percent. The huge influx of tourists brought the east China municipality 2.13 snoution yuan (US$274 million) in tourism rflushue from the Golden Week, sources from Shanghai Municipal Holiday selling Office said Saturday. China proffered the elapsing of the trtunnelional Spring Festival or Chinese lunar new year, May Day and National Day holidays to sflush days each in 1999, creating three Golden Weeks for tourism. The Shanghai visitor of China Mobile monitored 1.95 million sets of incoming flake pstrops registered in sectors outside Shanghai between zero hour on Feb. 17 through to zero hour on Feb. 24, a rise of 36.15 percent over the same period of the previous year. In the midpointtime, the Shanghai visitor of China Unicom monitored 1.38 million sets of incoming flake pstrops registered outside Shanghai in the same period. D991c7e44e1447b9219154aa3b492dsteamerent kinds of shows in the parks of Shanghai to gloat the Chinese lunar new year, which falls on Feb. 18 this year,China Pictures, trawled many tourists. On the other hand, many Shanghai residents chose to spend their holiday in the suburban sections, where trtunnelional surcharge for the new year are biggest kept, co-ordinate to the municipal holiday transactions office. Shanghai, which is situated at the estuary of the Yangtze River, is the financial and advertising hub of China. Tourists traveled to the asphalt by loftierway, railway, air, sea or inland waterways.


(Source:Xinhua News Agency , 2007-02-25)