Some students decided to skip the relaxation portion of the holiday and used the time to study at the Jilin provincial library in Changchun on Oct 5 during the week-long holiday. [Photo by Xu Chang/Xinhua]

Tourists pose for photos at Tianchi Lake on Changbai Mountain in the Yanbian Korean autonomous prefecture, Northeast China's Jilin province, just before the National Day holiday. Altogether, 144,000 tourists made trips to the scenic spot during the holiday, up 20 percent from the previous year. On Oct 4, Changbai Mountain scenic spot saw 37,000 travelers, setting a new single day record. [Photo by Ren Junming/xinhuanet]

Meng Meng, a giant panda, sleeps in the panda house at the Jilin Siberian Tiger Park in Changchun, capital of Northeast China's Jilin province, on Oct 4. Many people came to see Meng Meng and Jia Jia, two giant pandas, during the National Day holiday. The two pandas, from the Dujiangyan panda base in Sichuan province, are on a three-year loan as part of a research project about pandas raised at higher latitudes. [Photo by Lin Hong/Xinhua]

Changchun railway station sees a surge of travelers on Oct 7, the last day of the week-long holiday, as people return home. [Photo by Xu Chang/Xinhua]