A visitor views exhibits at a museum in Boxing County of Binzhou City, east China's Shandong Province, May 4, 2025. During the five-day May Day holiday, museums across China recorded more than 60.49 million visits, setting a new record and marking a 17 percent increase year on year. (Photo by Chen Bin/Xinhua)

　　BEIJING, May 6 (Xinhua) -- During the five-day May Day holiday, museums across China recorded more than 60.49 million visits, setting a new record and marking a 17 percent increase year on year.

　　For many travelers, cultural sites have become must-see destinations during holiday.

　　At the Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum in Xi'an, the capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province and a famed ancient Chinese capital, a tourist surnamed Zhou and her family from central China's Henan Province were already in line for entry at 4 a.m. one morning of the holiday.

　　“It took us three days of attempts on our phones just to get tickets,“ she said. “No matter how crowded it is, we had to come and see the treasures of our ancestors.“

　　To accommodate the surge in visitors, the museum increased its daily ticket supply by 15,000, bringing its total holiday capacity to 80,000, and it extended its opening hours into the evening.

　　Throngs of culture and history enthusiasts like Zhou and her family flocked to heritage-rich provinces such as Shaanxi, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, each of which drew over 4.5 million visitors during the holiday from May 1 to 5, according to the National Cultural Heritage Administration (NCHA).

　　The NCHA said that over the past decade, the number of museums in China has continued to grow, rising at an average of more than 200 per year.