Think Hong Kong is crowded? Labour Day tourists flock to China's hotspots

As this year’s three-day Labour Day holiday comes to an end, it emerged that tourism sites across China received a record-breaking number of Chinese visitors over the public holiday.

Tourists flocked in record numbers this weekend to sites in Beijing, including the Forbidden Palace which was visited by 109,000 tourists, according to the tourism authority.

The popular tourism city of Xian, home of the Terracotta Warriors, catered to a staggering 3.8 million visitors - nearly half of its population - during the holiday.

In the prosperous coastal city of Shanghai, the number of tourists converging on a popular wildlife park was nearly five times that of average visitor numbers outside the public holiday.