Tourists visit the Harbin Ice-Snow World in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Dec. 31, 2023. Many tourists spent their last day of 2023 at Harbin Ice-Snow World, a renowned ice-and-snow theme park in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)

A total of 135 million domestic trips were made in China during the three-day New Year holiday from Dec. 30, 2023 to Jan 1, 2024, statistics from the country's Ministry of Culture and Tourism showed.

According to the ministry, the amount is 155.3 percent higher than the same period last year and 9.4 percent higher than the figure from 2019.

During the period, the total revenue in China's tourist market surpassed 79.73 billion yuan (about 11.27 billion U.S. dollars), doubling the figure for the holiday season last year and increasing by 5.6 percent year on year from 2019, the ministry added.