Spring Festival consumption recovers in various industries (4)

Catering industry

Tourists enjoy hot pot at an ice-made booth on the Central Street in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Jan. 28, 2023. A food fair with ice-made booths on the Central Street has become a popular tourist destination as ice-snow tourism booms in Harbin. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)

During the Spring Festival holiday, the revenue of key catering companies surveyed increased by 24.7 percent compared with the Spring Festival period in 2022 and 1.9 percent compared with that in 2019.

The restaurants footfall increased 26 percent compared to last year's Spring Festival and was roughly the same as that of 2019, according to a survey conducted by the China Cuisine Association.