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274 million Chinese take a holiday: why ‘golden week’ 2023 was different

Inside China

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The Economic Impact of the Golden Week

This is one of the first major holidays for people in mainland China after three years of zero COVID restrictions. Around 274 million people traveled over the five-day labor holiday. That was almost 120% of the pre-pandemic levels in 2019. Experts are saying that the easy part of the post-opening recovery is done because we've already seen the release of pent-up demand, they say.

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