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© Provided by Xinhua BEIJING, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese capital Beijing became a tourist magnet during the week-long Spring Festival holiday, recording over 6.63 million visits made by tourists as the holiday ended Wednesday. Among the total visits, which rose by 3.5 times over the same period of last year, more than 1.72 million visits were made by tourists from other parts of the country, contributing 2.67 billion yuan to the city's tourist revenue, up 1.8 times year on year. Data from the municipal bureau of culture and tourism showed that during the holiday from Feb. 11 to...
