Faraway places and county towns: How China traveled this National Day holiday

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  Discussion keeps the world turning.

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  This is Roundtable.

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  If you're not in China, for your information,

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  we've just had a very relaxing week off to celebrate our national day and enjoy the beautiful autumn outside.

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  If you are in China, well, where did you go and where did you stay?

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  Maybe you flew somewhere far and stayed put for a week.

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  Maybe you ended up in a county town you'd never heard of a month ago.

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  Or maybe you bought a concert ticket and built the whole trip around it.

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  If any of that sounds like you, you're not alone.

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  I think you've probably noticed it in the crowds.

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  So today we're looking at how China travels for this holiday and whether it's different from before.

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  Coming to you from our studios in Beijing, this is Roundtable.

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  I'm Fei Fei, and for today's discussion, I'm joined by Yu Shan and Xing Yu.

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  First...

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  Every National Day holiday, the headlines sounds very much alike.

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  Record crowds, packed trains, a nation on the move.

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  And this year we want to approach this story a little differently because there is a very interesting...

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  Question, which isn't about how many people traveled.

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  It's really what they traveled for and whether the places they chose were ready for them.

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  It could be small county towns that used to be pass-throughs now suddenly fall.

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