On the fifth day of the first lunar month, every household welcomes the God of Wealth, and the flavor of the New Year is strong.
Experience folklore at a traditional temple fair and pray for the New Year.
Watching a hilarious movie doubles the joy.
Take a long-awaited trip and enjoy ...... leisurely time
Splendid Chinese Year.
In a series of "fancy" New Year activities.
Consumption vitality has been fully released.
Wealth from all directions! Festive New Year, release of vitality.
The box office of Spring Festival movies has exceeded 5 billion yuan.
The hot Spring Festival file, films with diverse themes continue to cause a movie-watching boom. According to statistics, on the fifth day of the first lunar month, the cumulative box office of this year's Spring Festival stalls (February 10 to February 17) has exceeded 5 billion yuan. Movies such as "Hot and Hot", "Flying Life 2", "Bear Infested: Reversing Time and Space" continue to lead, and many screenings are full. Industry insiders said that the movie-watching tide has ignited the Chinese New Year cultural consumption market in 2024, and it is expected to enter a new round of growth in the future.
Fireworks, temple fairs, lantern festivals, ......Traditional programs offer immersive experiences.
The fireworks on Chinese New Year's Eve, the firecrackers that broke five, and the shocking New Year fireworks show frequently brushed the screen on the Internet, attracting comments and likes from netizens from many countries.
During this year's Spring Festival, traditional temple fairs and lantern festivals are splendid. Temple fairs such as the Temple of Earth, Changdian, Grand View Garden, Shijingshan Amusement Park, and Badachu in Beijing are crowded. In Shanghai, the "2024 Longfor Shanghai Fengxian Tianjie Temple Fair" is being held, and on the red "stage", programs such as Nanqiao paper-tearing skills, Kunqu Opera, and Soviet-style Pingtan will be presented in turn. In the Tang Paradise in Xi'an, "auspicious dragons welcome spring", "dragons and phoenixes are auspicious", and "birds and phoenixes" ......A variety of lanterns of different shapes are brilliant.
In the ancient city of Chaozhou, intangible cultural heritage displays, theatrical performances, and lantern parades ......More than 200 cultural feasts were staged non-stop during the Spring Festival, and the dense crowd was unprecedented.
Online consumption is off to a good start, and the retail sales are close to 800 billion yuan.
Xu Xingfeng, director of the Department of Market Operation and Consumption Promotion of the Ministry of Commerce, said at a recent press conference held by the State Council Information Office that since the launch of the "2024 National Online New Year Festival", online retail sales have been close to 800 billion yuan, an increase of 8 percent over the same period last year9%, achieving a "good start" for online consumption in 2024.
The 2024 National Online New Year Goods Festival was launched on January 18 and will last until February 17.
During the Spring Festival, many consumers choose to shop online or send New Year's goods, and with the help of intelligent sorting and other systems, logistics companies are making every effort to improve operational efficiency and accuracy to cope with the peak of online shopping flow. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Jianan) The money is rolling! Flowing China, wealth flowing.
In the 40 days of the Spring Festival in 2024, it is expected that 9 billion people will travel, which will hit a record high. In the past few days, people have been going home to visit relatives and travel during holidays, and planes, high-speed rail, trains, long-distance buses, self-driving and other travel modes have been parallel. According to the data, from the start of the Spring Festival on January 26 to February 11, the cross-regional flow of people in the whole society exceeded 3.5 billion. On February 11 (the 17th day of the Spring Festival, the second day of the first lunar month), the cross-regional flow of people in the whole society exceeded 200 million.
Passengers wait in the waiting hall of Zhengzhou East Railway Station on January 26, 2024. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li An) is in the middle of winter, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the General Administration of Sports recently announced the list of the third batch of national ski tourism resorts, and 7 places including Guangwu Ski Resort in Shanyin County, Shuozhou City, Shanxi Province were selected, and up to now, China has 26 national ski tourism resorts.
"cold resources" continue to transform into a "hot economy". According to data from Meituan and Dianping, since November 2023, the number of ski ticket orders** has increased by more than 700% year-on-year compared with 2019, and popular ski destinations such as the three Middle East provinces, Xinjiang, and Hebei have attracted the most attention, with a reservation rate of 100%, ushering in the most prosperous snow season in five years.
During the hot holidays, many families go out as a family to the outside world to experience the special customs of the New Year. According to the "Analysis of China's Tourism Economy Operation in 2023 and Development in 2024**" released by the China Tourism Academy (Data Center of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism) a few days ago, after comprehensive research and judgment, it is expected that the number of domestic tourists in 2024 will exceed 6 billion, and the total number of inbound and outbound tourists is expected to exceed 2600 million people.
During the Spring Festival, homestay bookings across the country are hot. According to data from B&B booking platform Woodbird B&B, as of February 11, homestay bookings during the Spring Festival holiday increased by 165% compared with the same period last year.
In the Daoxi Pastoral Cultural Tourism Base in Nanxian County, Hunan, lanterns are hung high and streamers are fluttering on the edge of the rice fields, and the former rice and shrimp breeding base has been transformed into a "New Year atmosphere" check-in place. The person in charge of the base told reporters that due to the launch of activities such as pastoral barbecue and New Year's "tea brewing around the hearth", the daily reception of tourists at the base has skyrocketed from the original 1,000 to more than 5,000. Through the operation during the Spring Festival this year, they also saw a good momentum for the development of rural agricultural and cultural tourism scenic spots in the future.
Keep moving! The new year of struggle is more prosperous.
The festival is new, and the New Year is "not closed". From border ports to workshops and factories, from freight terminals to key project construction sites, from online car-hailing drivers to couriers and takeaways, there are always a group of people who stick to their posts and keep walking. In the new year of struggle, a new year is slowly unfolding.
The port is not closed, and the production is continuous. During the Spring Festival, the Macun Border Inspection Station of the Haikou Entry-Exit Border Inspection Station adopted the "Spring Festival" 24-hour uninterrupted guarantee for the entry and exit of all kinds of ships and the production continuity of port enterprises.
At 10 o'clock on February 10, the police on duty at the Macun Border Inspection Station of the Haikou Entry-Exit Border Inspection Station completed a routine inspection of a foreign ship at the wharf, and boarded the ship to send a big "Fu" to the crew. (Xinhua News Agency reporter Su Jing) foreign trade is endless, and supply is non-stop. On the afternoon of the 10th, the Trans-Caspian Central Asia train loaded with 100 TEUs of daily chemicals, machinery and equipment and other export goods set off from the Yaohuamen Railway Freight Yard of Nanjing Logistics Center. It is reported that the train is the first trans-Caspian train in Jiangsu Province in the Year of the Dragon, leaving through the Khorgos port, passing through Kazakhstan and other places, and finally going to Baku, Azerbaijan through the Trans-Caspian International Transport Corridor.
Stick to the holidays and be busy in the New Year. The more holidays there are, the busier the couriers who stick to their posts. The same kind of New Year's goods are sent to thousands of households from the hands of express delivery brothers, and the New Year's flavor brought by express delivery has become a new atmosphere of the festival, reflecting the new vitality of Chinese consumption.
Wang Chao, who was born in 1997, has been engaged in express delivery work in Xiamen for almost four years. During the Spring Festival, he went to work at 8 o'clock in the morning and got off work at 6 o'clock in the afternoon every day, sending and receiving more than 100 express deliveries every day. "I'm proud to be able to bring convenience to the public," he said.
Editor: Wang Zhuai.
Reporters: Sun Lei, Wang Ruiping, Liang Aiping, Zhan Yijia, Zhao Ziyu, Si Xiaoshuai, Dai Bin, Ruan Huan, Xia Peng, Fu Min, Chen Wang.
Reporters: Shi Peng, Wei Kexin, Shen Zezhou, Chen Anqi.
Comics: Cui Xiaoqi.
Produced by Xinhua News Agency.