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Article: China Exclusive: Mainland tourists celebrate first lunar New Year in Taiwan
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- January 31, 2009
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China Exclusive: Mainland tourists celebrate first lunar New Year
in Taiwan
TAIPEI, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of Chinese mainland
tourists have enjoyed their first Spring Festival holiday in Taiwan
this year, thanks to the warming ties between the two sides in the
past year.
More than 10,000 tourists had arrived in Taiwan from Sunday to
Thursday, the first five days of the Chinese lunar New Year
vacation, according to the Taiwan tourism department.
The arrivals peaked on Monday, the first day of the lunar New
Year, when more than 3,000 mainland tourists landed on the island.
"I was moved by the kindness of local people," said Yu, a tourist
from Beijing who declined to give her full ...