Tourists visit the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province, on April 29, 2020, when the landmark tower partly reopened to the public after coronavirus-forced restriction. (XIAO YIJIU / XINHUA)

BEIJING – China registered a spike in domestic tourism with 6 billion trips in 2019, up 8.4 percent year on year, said the ministry of culture and tourism.

Overseas travels from China surged 3.3 percent year on year to 154.6 million in 2019, while overseas tourists paid 145.3 million visits to China last year, an increase of 2.9 percent, according to a report released by the ministry.

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Last year, the country's tourism industry earned 6.63 trillion yuan (about US$935 billion) in revenue, registering an annual growth of 11.1 percent, according to the report.