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October 4, 2005

Holiday for one sixth of the world population…

As most of you know, this week is one of the three week-long vacation in China. This time, it’s for the National Day, October 1st. Of course, a lot of Chinese people continue to work during this week but the figures are amazing, huge compared last year.
The sale of tickets for touristic sites growed more than 75% year-to-year on Saturday 1st of October. 56,100 people visited the Forbidden City that same day while 30,000 visited the Summer Palace.
The Beijing Transportation Management Bureau is expecting the sale of 92 million bus tickets and 15 million subway tickets for this week. The three subway station near the Tian An Men square had to be closed due to overcrowding.


One Response to “Holiday for one sixth of the world population…”

  1. Yoda63 Says:

    Oula je sens d’ici le bordel … bon courage les gars si vous voulez faire un peu de tourisme !!!
    Par experience, je vous conseil une montagne sacree ;)

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