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Labour Day celebrated
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PEOPLE across China celebrated Labour Day by holding colourful activities.
Thousands of people, many of whom tourists, flocked to the Tian'anmen Square in Beijing to watch the flag-raising ceremony very early on Tuesday morning, the first day of the week-long Labour Day holiday.
At 5.14am, as the National Anthem was being played, the five-starred national flag was gradually hoisted under the rosy clouds in the eastern sky. Stirred with emotion, a tourist from Hong Kong said the national flag on Tian'anmen Square represents the hope of all the Chinese people.
A campfire evening party was held in Mu Us Desert in Northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region on Tuesday night. Hundreds of people, including workers, students, soldiers and officials, sang and danced around the campfire.
The Shaolin Temple in Putian County of Fujian Province, East China, had received 100,000 visitors by May 1. Many of the tourists came from Japan, the Republic of Korea, Indonesia, Canada and the United States.
Many Chinese chose sightseeing with family members during May Day. Shanghai, China's largest industrial centre, arranged 110 trains a day to carry 720,000 passengers in and out of the city, more than the amount for the Spring Festival, the most popular holiday in China.
In Guangzhou, capital city of South China's Guangdong Province, at least 400,000 residents spent the first day of the Labour Day holiday by touring apartment buildings in over 100 newly built residential quarters in the city.
Touring and purchasing new apartments has become a new fashion of observing holidays now in Guangzhou where per capita living space has reached 13 square metres, ranking top among all big Chinese cities.(SD-Xinhua)
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