Tourists' spending during the holiday reached nearly 650 billion yuan ( billion), an increase of 8.47 percent from the previous year, the ministry said.
Trains throughout the country carried 11.58 million passengers on Thursday, 1.74 million more than the same period last year.
Tourism is a fragile business sector and is easily affected by external factors such as social instability. As more than 800,000 people are employed in the tourism and retailing industry, if the industry crashed in Hong Kong, related sectors would be affected, damaging the special administrative region's whole economy, Lam said.
Tourists enjoy Dongfushan's peaceful ambience, but for the sailors, whose average age is 25, life is unchanging in terms of work, food, entertainment and a limited number of new arrivals and visitors.
Total vehicle sales in first quarter stood at 6.37 million units with a decrease of 11.32 percent compared with last year.
Traveling at a maximum speed of 70 km per hour, the train has 66 passenger seats and can hold up to 336 people.
阿图什治妇科病哪家较好
Toys R Us Asia plans to add as many as 50 new stores next year in China. It's a big vote of confidence in brick-and-mortar retailing at a time when the growing popularity of e-commerce competitors contributed to the parent company's failure in the US.
Top Chinese and US military officials agreed to further develop military relations and exchanges amid growing tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
Traditional indigo textiles are making a comeback after falling out of public favor in the 1980s
Top representatives from Britain's tourism and hospitality sector convened on Monday to discuss a potential slump in the number of visitors to the United Kingdom following Saturday's van and knife terror attack in London, which claimed seven lives and injured 48.