1st LD-Writethru: China Focus: Spring Festival boosts travel, consumption as 8-day holiday nears end

BEIJING, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- As China wraps up its 8-day Spring Festival holiday celebrating the start of the Year of the Snake, the world's second-largest economy has witnessed shopping and travel booms ignited by hundreds of millions of Chinese people's family reunions.

This year's holiday, from Jan. 28 to Feb. 4, marks the second consecutive year that people in China have experienced an extended public holiday