Chinese spending on shopping, food hit record high during National Day holiday

 

Tourists visit the West Lake in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, Oct. 2, 2016. Altogether 593 million people visited tourist attractions around the country and spent 482.2 billion yuan (about 72.3 billion U.S. dollars) during this year's National Day holiday, up 12.8 percent and 14.4 percent respectively year on year, according to the China National Tourism Administration. (Xinhua/Long Wei)