Drone show lights up Dunhuang's night sky during Spring Festival holiday

A Spring Festival drone show is illuminating the night sky over Dunhuang, a historic oasis city and key junction on the ancient Silk Road, in northwest China's Gansu Province, from Friday to Monday.

The show starts at 20:00 with more than 1,000 drones, which take flight simultaneously and move together in perfect synchrony to paint glowing shapes across the night sky.

The choreographed drones arrange themselves into various formations to depict many of Dunhuang's historic sites and natural wonders, such as Buddhist temples of the UNESCO-listed Mogao Grottoes and the iconic Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Spring scenic spot, and camels traveling on the ancient Silk Road.

Other displays feature blooming flowers, a galloping horse -- the Chinese zodiac animal sign this year, Chinese characters for spring and good fortune, and other Spring Festival symbols.

Today's Dunhuang is a premier cultural and tourist center in northwest China, attracting millions of tourists from all over the world every year.

China's Hengqin Port handled 720,000 passenger entries and exits in seven days of the Spring Festival holiday, seeing a growth of 27.7 percent year on year.

As a vital gateway connecting the Chinese mainland with Macao and the broader Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the port also received more than 70,000 vehicles from February 15 to 21, a year-on-year growth of 45.8 percent.

Passenger traffic remained high at the port during the nine-day holiday running till February 24. The highest single-day passenger volume was recorded on the third day of the holiday, at 127,000.

It is predicted that the port will see a peak in return passenger traffic on Sunday and Monday, the last two days of the holiday.