Then and now: National Day holiday
Cherry
2016-10-12 09:19:09
The National Day holiday or the Golden Week, one of the country's biggest holidays of the year,
was established on Oct 1, 1999. Since then a lot has changed. In the first year, 28 million Chinese
went travelling across the nation. This year nearly 600 million took trips during the weeklong
vacation. Here we walk down memory lane and relive some of the changes during the past two
decades.
A woman poses in front of Huangguoshu Waterfall in Guizhou on Oct 2005, left, and repeats the
same gesture at the same spot on Oct 2016, right.
Top: A road in Chongqing is jammed with cars as tourists start returning from holiday on Oct 5,
2010. Bottom: A photo taken on Oct 4, 2016, shows more self-tour cars at Huangshan Mountain,
the scenic spot in Anhui.Top: A road in Chongqing is jammed with cars as tourists start returning
from holiday on Oct 5, 2010. Bottom: A photo taken on Oct 4, 2016, shows more self-tour cars
at Huangshan Mountain, the scenic spot in Anhui.Top: A road in Chongqing is jammed with cars
as tourists start returning from holiday on Oct 5, 2010. Bottom: A photo taken on Oct 4, 2016,
shows more self-tour cars at Huangshan Mountain, the scenic spot in Anhui.