China’s domestic trips up 18 pct in first three quarters
新闻台署名 来源：新华社、《黎明报》、《阿拉伯新闻》、阿纳多卢通讯社与《分钟镜报》。由 GSRRA 编辑部翻译并节选。
Nearly 5 billion domestic trips were recorded in China in the first three quarters of the year, marking a year-on-year increase of 18 percent, according to data released by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism on Tuesday.
A total of 4.85 trillion yuan (about 684 billion U.S. dollars) was spent by domestic tourists during the nine months, up 11.5 percent from the same period in 2024.
Urban residents remained the primary engine of China’s domestic tourism. They made nearly 3.8 billion trips, with total spending reaching 4.05 trillion yuan, according to the data.
Notably, the number of domestic trips made by rural residents increased by 25 percent year on year, with a 24 percent rise in spending.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
