How do the Chinese spend their money during SpringFestival this year?

(People's Daily Online) 07:14, January 30, 2014

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New Year's Eve dinner

Reasonable prices in high-end restaurants

New Year's Eve dinner, also called family reunion dinner or Spring Festival dinner, is themost important meal of the Spring Festival.

In contrast to "high-end" and expensive New Year's Eve dinners in previous years, mostrestaurants have lowered the price of the meal this year.

"It's convenient to have the family reunion dinner in a restaurant," says Mrs. Wu, ahousewife from Shenyang in northeastern China's Liaoning Province. "We can book adinner in the restaurant where we usually eat and it won't cost too much, about 500 to1000 yuan."

Although most restaurants have reduced the number of dishes in their dinner packages, anincreasing number of people choose to eat out in a restaurant in order to avoid the botherof cooking at home.

In Beijing, more than 80 percent of New Year's Eve dinners have been booked up inrestaurants including Emei Restaurant, Meizhou Dongpo, Donglaishun, Dasanyuan, andGuolin. Their Spring Festival food packages also sell well in these restaurants.

Many businesses are also targeting this opportunity, providing cooked or semi-finishedSpring Festival food packages for consumers to choose on their online shopping websites.

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（Editor：DuMingming、Yao Chun）

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