Tide watching season comes at east China beach

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 ◆ Tide watching season comes at east China beach

More than 115,000 tourists from home and abroad gathered at Qiantang, east China's Zhejiang province, on September 22 to watch the mammoth autumnal tides.

The bell-shaped mouth of the Qiantang River that runs through the province helps form the world-renowned tide, which has a crest as high as 3.5 meters.

Haining City started to stage the International Qiantang Tide Watching Festival in 1992.

The five-day tide-watching festival last year attracted more than one million tourists.

Tourists to the city can also visit well-preserved ancient buildings and experience folk culture and art galleries of many renowned Chinese artists in the province which has a long history as a home for Chinese water-color painting and silk making.