China’s Golden Week: Huge crowds, national pride and 5,000 drones

Packed streets, highways filled with cars and 5,000 drones lighting up the sky. China celebrates National Day on a massive scale.

RT’s Konstantin Rozhkov joins the Golden Week crowds in Beijing, exploring traditional sweets, the Tiananmen Square flag-raising ceremony and family holidays. Across the country, drone shows and lantern displays bring their own spectacle to the celebrations marking the founding of the People’s Republic of China on October 1, 1949.