Tourists ride camels at Yueya Spring, a crescent-shaped lake surrounded by deserts, in Dunhuang, northwest China's Gansu province, Oct. 1, 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/Zhang Xiaoliang)