People all over China are busy preparing for the upcoming Spring Festival, the most important holiday for Chinese people and one similar to Christmas in the West.
As the festival draws nearer, China will have one of its most hectic shopping periods.
Let's see where Spring Festival budgets go.
Transportation
A boy takes a train home with his mother at Shenyang South Station in Shenyang, Northeast China's Liaoning province, on Jan 4, 2019. [Photo/VCG]
Gifts for seniors
A man takes gifts home with his family in Luoyang, Central China's Henan province, on Feb 8, 2018. [Photo/VCG]
Gifts for children
A girl smiles in delight as she receives a Peppa Pig stuffed toy as a present during Spring Festival in Nanchang, East China's Jiangxi province, on Jan 25, 2019. [Photo/VCG]
Gifts for her
Chinese student Zhang Tian makes lipsticks for his girlfriend at the Nanjing Institute of Tourism & Hospitality in Nanjing city, East China's Jiangsu province, on Nov 13, 2018. [Photo/IC]
Gifts for him
A man plays video games on his smartphone on Jan 17, 2019. [Photo/IC]
Red envelopes
Sending and receiving
hongbao, red envelopes filled with gifts of money, is a longstanding tradition among friends and family during Spring Festival. Today WeChat makes it more convenient. [Photo/IC]
Food
A woman chooses lobsters with her granddaughter in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province, on June 16, 2018. [Photo/VCG]
Clothes
A woman shops for clothes at a mall in Shanghai with the aid of new technology on June 16, 2018. [Photo/VCG]
Beauty
Women get manicures in Shanghai on March 2, 2018. [Photo/IC]
Decorations
People select couplets and other holiday ornaments for the upcoming Spring Festival at a market in Macau on Jan 29, 2019. [Photo/IC]
