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Mid-Autumn Festival not so festive

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Well, that was predictable.
On Tuesday, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Ministry of Transport dropped travel stats for the three-day Mid-Autumn Festival break (September 10-12).

And the picture they paint ain't pretty.

The deets (The Paper, CCTV): 

Total domestic tourist trips hi...