Today.
Beijing Municipal People's General Office.
Official release. About New Year's Day 2024.
Notification of holiday schedules.
In accordance with the spirit of the notice of the General Office.
The 2024 New Year's Day holiday arrangements are hereby notified as follows.
30 December 2023 (Saturday).
Closed until January 1, 2024 (Monday).
A total of 3 days. 
During New Year's Day.
Friends who choose to travel pay attention
On December 7, the railway 12306app ticket purchase page was updated, and after this update,Discount information will be displayed on the new ticket purchase pageThis allows ticket buyers to be more aware of real-time fare changes. At present, many railways implement floating fares, and the actual fares have fluctuated on the basis of the published fares.
The revised 12306 app ticket purchase page.
The large difference in fares has caused controversy
Tickets are divided into published fares and executed fares.
Before this year's National Day holiday, some consumers reported that the D927 sleeper from Beijing to Shenzhen, the upper bunk was 1150 yuan on weekdays, but on September 28 (the day before the National Day holiday), ** rose to 1860 yuan, and the lower berth moved to 2090 yuan.
In response to this question, the 12306 customer service staff said that the ticket is divided into the published fare and the execution fare, if there is a certain discount when it occurs, it is the execution fare, if there is no discount, the day of the train is not discounted, it is to publish the fare**.
12306 customer service saidThe published fares will also be publicized on the railway 12306 app, and ** will be publicized through the fare inquiry function. The customer service staff also explained that the moving bed itself is relatively high, as far as the moving bed of D927 is concerned, the initial ** is 2264 yuan, the discount strength is different, the ticket price will fluctuate to a certain extent, and the overall discount is based on the published fare. This time, the discount information will be announced directly on the app, and the ticket situation will be directly informed to the public, so as to reduce doubts.
Singapore's "Lianhe Zaobao" reported on December 7 that Singapore and China held a meeting of the New Zealand-China Joint Committee on Bilateral Cooperation (JCBC) in Tianjin on December 7 to further promote cooperation between the two countries. Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Lawrence Wong revealed at the meeting that on the basis of the increasing number of Singapore-China flightsThe two sides will strengthen people-to-people exchanges between the two countries through a 30-day visa waiver arrangement.
The reciprocal visa waiver policy will also have a positive impact on the tourism industry in China and Singapore. Ctrip data shows that as of 13 o'clock on December 7, after the news was announced,The search volume in Singapore increased by 8% month-on-month in the hour before the announcement, the search volume for air tickets increased by 9%, and the search volume for hotels increased by 5%.
Singapore (Photo courtesy of Ctrip).
Singapore is a popular destination for Chinese outbound tourism and an important source of inbound tourists. According to the data, from January to September 2023, Singapore reached 1 million Chinese tourists, recovering to 35% of the level of the same period in 2019. On July 26 this year, China announced the resumption of the unilateral visa-free entry policy for Singapore, and Singaporean citizens holding ordinary passports who come to China for business, tourism, visiting relatives and friends and transiting can stay in China without a visa for 15 days.
According to the Qunar platform index, the search index in Singapore on December 7 increased by 4 times compared with last week. In December, the direct flight ticket between Beijing and Singapore is 1200 yuan, Shanghai-Singapore is 950 yuan, Chengdu-Singapore is 845 yuan, Hangzhou-Singapore is 790 yuan, and Guangzhou-Singapore is 860 yuan. At the same time, searches for Universal Studios Singapore tickets on Qunar increased by 40% month-on-month.
In addition to Singapore, this year,Georgia, Thailand, Tunisia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and other countries have also announced visa-free access for Chinese tourists.
*: Beijing**, Hubei Release, Red Star News, etc.