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World's Longest Sightseeing Escalator Opens in China's Enshi Grand Canyon
Charissa Echavez | | Oct 13, 2016 07:00 AM EDT |
China has unveiled the longest sightseeing escalator, trailing 688 meters (2,257 feet) long, in the Enshi Grand Canyon in Hubei province.
Chinese Spending Hit $180B During Golden Week
Charissa Echavez | | Oct 12, 2016 08:00 AM EDT |
Chinese consumers splurged a whopping 1.2 trillion yuan ($180 billion) domestically during the country's Golden Week, according to WWD, up 10.7 percent compared to that of in 2015 based on the Ministry of Commerce (MOC)'s data.
Great Wall of China Attracts Record 8 Million Visitors In One Day During 'Golden Week'
Dan Weisman | | Oct 10, 2014 11:15 PM EDT |
Golden Week, which celebrates in China lived up to its name this week when an estimated 16 million people turned the Great Wall of China into a veritable human traffic jam. Those numbers included 8 million people visiting the wall in one day, the most in one day since 2009. Accessible public sections designed for tourists last week were packed like Nanjing Road in Shanghai with wall-to-wall human traffic.
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