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Booming Consumption<br />
in Chinese Spring Festival<br />
By Guo Yan<br />
Spring Festival is known as China’s most important holiday reunion,<br />
and the majorities of Chinese at home and abroad will return to their<br />
hometowns and spend the holiday with their relatives.<br />
According to the Ministry of Railways, the railway peak season<br />
will span from January 26 to March 6, 2013, and more than 224 million<br />
passengers are expected to travel via trains during the period, a year-on-year<br />
increase of 4.6 percent. What measures do you choose to get the train ticket<br />
to go home, by phone, by the Internet or by lining up at the station?<br />
Statistics from the Agriculture Ministry’s information website monitoring<br />
the farm products wholesale market showed, in the first week of 2013,<br />
27 out of 28 vegetables saw a price hike. Will the price increase or decline<br />
during the holiday? When you are at home, will you choose to cook with<br />
your family at home or enjoy buffets at the restaurant?<br />
Besides booking train tickets online, many people choose to purchase<br />
new year’s goods not only at supermarket or shopping mall, but online.<br />
Which do you think is more convenient? At the same time, when you purchase<br />
online, be careful of the fishing websites.<br />
At the end of the Chinese lunar year, many people take this opportunity<br />
to travel at home and overseas. And since 2013 is the year of snake, some<br />
buy the collection of gold to maintain the value. So which will you choose?<br />
Undoubtedly the increasing consumption boosts the holiday economy<br />
during this spring festival. With the above questions, let’s go through this issue<br />
of Special Report to find the answers.<br />
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