Hong Kong media: Chinese tourists running towards the cool "high altitude"

Hong Kong's "South China Morning Post" July 17th article, original topic: Chinese heat wave prompts tourists to travel to high altitude. With the relaxation of domestic tourism restrictions in China, the heat waves that have swept across the country are promoting tourists to find cool tourism destinations. The China National Climate Center said that the current heat wave is centered on the broad Yangtze River Basin, extending from Chengdu, Sichuan Province to Shanghai, which has influenced more than 900 million people in China's 1.4 billion people. This heat wave led to the temperature in many parts of China rising to above 40 ° C. Some cities with the largest population in Chongqing and Shanghai have a record high and many people have heat stroke.

Reports released by Tongcheng Travel Joint Ink Weather show that as of July 15, the online search volume with "summer avoidance" as the keyword increased by 127%last week. The heat has also risen sharply. These searches are the most common in the provinces of the Yangtze River Basin.

Ms. Wu (Yin) from Guangzhou, southern city, said that in the past week, she has been vacation in the mountains in Guizhou Province, Southwest. The epidemic in Guizhou is not very serious. " Although the temperature there is still around 30 ° C during the day, it is about 5 ° C than Guangzhou, and the temperature at night drops to a more pleasant 23 ° C.

Reporter Fiona Jia, a reporter in Beijing, chose to travel to places where or even higher in altitude: Xinjiang Xiata Ancient Road National Forest Park with an altitude of more than 3,000 meters. "I think it has got rid of the heat wave in Beijing." Jia said, "After the sunset, the evening and night of Xinjiang usually become quite cool. And the mountains are cooler, sometimes it makes people feel a little cold."

Although China ’s strict entry isolation regulations on returning tourists have made exit tourism almost out of reach, China has recently relaxed the prevention and control measures for epidemic situations, which helps Chinese tourists seeking domestic tourism for the summer. Yang Fuquan (Yin), a researcher at the Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences, said that seeing the number of tourists around Lijiang this month has rebounded significantly. The area has always been famous for its historical buildings and mountains. Yang said: "This is the third year of the epidemic, many people want to go out for travel. The summer vacation needs high vacation needs. Lijiang tourism is recovering, and everyone here is very happy. But this is the level before the epidemic. It is still far from each other, and it takes longer for a comprehensive recovery. "Relaxing travel restrictions, especially the change of communication big data regulations, making cross -provincial travel easier than before. (Author Ji Siqi, translated by Ding Yan)

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