Source: CCTV.com

01-21-2009 08:40

The week-long holiday for Spring Festival is a golden travel season for Chinese people. As the temperature falls, the passion for travel is heating up. The hottest choices are the country's coldest and warmest regions. Let's take a closer look.

The week-long holiday for Spring Festival is a golden travel season for Chinese people.

Air or train tickets to travel China's northeastern Heilongjiang province are in huge demand. Every day, over 10-thousand people arrive at the airport of the provincial capital, Harbin. Among them, 60% are tourists. More than 90% of the seats are taken on the airplanes fly to Harbin from other major cities.

The price of a standard room in Harbin has reached 700 yuan, which hasn't influenced reservations. Cheaper hostels are proving popular. Those priced at about 200 yuan have all been booked from the first day to the fifth day of the lunar New Year.

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