A record 6.15 million trips were made by Chinese mainland tourists to overseas destinations during the seven-day Spring Festival holiday, which ended on Thursday, according to the China National Tourism Administration.
A tourist takes photos as the plum trees begin to blossom at the Badashanren Museum on the bank of Mei Lake in Nanchang, capital of East China's Jiangxi province, Feb 1, 2017.
Some 258.1 million visitor trips have been made in China during the first four days of the Lunar New Year holiday, which started Friday.
Tourists visit the Largo Do Senado in Macao, South China, on Feb 1, 2017, during China's Lunar New Year holiday.
Chinese food in the United States is whetting new appetites, with more focus on taste and preparation to please, and tease, the palate.
People enjoy dinner with neighbors in Hangzhou, capital of East China's Zhejiang province, Feb 4, 2016.
Tourists stroll along the White Bank of the West Lake in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province, Jan 31, 2017.
WeChat, China's major instant messaging app, said that some 14.2 billion red packets (known as "hongbao" in Chinese) were given and received on WeChat on the eve of Spring Festival.
Beijing's 11 municipal parks and the Museum of Chinese Garden and Landscape Architecture received a total of 180,000 tourists on Saturday, the first day of the Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival.
Tourists visit the Shijingshan amusement park in Beijing, capital of China, Jan. 28, 2017. According to data from the China National Tourism Administration, on Saturday, the number of tourists received in China reached 65.2 million, generating income totaled 76 billion yuan (around $11.1 billion).
People visit Daguan park in Kunming, capital of Southwest China's Yunnan province, Jan 28, 2017. Kunming's hospitable weather during the Spring Festival attracted many visitors.
The lantern market opened to the public on the eve of the Spring Festival in Nanjing in Jiangsu province.