Copenhagen is one of the best places in the world to be a bicyclist but there is a downside — thousands of parked bicycles. Sometimes it gets out of control.

In 2014, when Copenhagen got its Cycle Snake — a new bicycle-only bridge — the city edged even closer to being a cyclists’ paradise.

There are in fact more bicycles in Copenhagen than people, five times as many bicycles as cars, and 400 km of cycle lanes — not shared with cars or pedestrians (行人) — for a city of about 600,000 people.

This has many advantages, such as cleaner air and physical fitness. If only more thought had gone into what happens when riders get off. Cycle parking is a big problem here.

Bikes are often parked on the pavement, taking up pedestrian space and blocking(堵住) entrances to shops and restaurants.

Outside Copenhagen’s central train station, where people often leave their bikes for the weekend, plenty of cyclists are fed up. “There just isn’t enough space,” says Kirsten Hoeholt, a famous artist.

While 95% of cyclists in the city are happy with conditions for cyclists overall, only 29% are satisfied with cycle-parking facilities-down from 40% in 1996.

One of Copenhagen’s is that it has been growing rapidly. About 12,000 people are moving to the city each year, while only 7,000 new cycle parking spaces have been created over the last eight years.

One Dutch idea on its way to Copenhagen is taking away the bikes that are parked in the wrong areas. Leave your bike in the wrong place and you could find that it has been moved to nearby bicycle facilities.

A few years ago, “bike-butlers” were introduced in some areas. The butlers pick up bicycles that have been knocked over, pump air into flat tyres and give the bike-chains a bit of oil, to thank people for parking properly.

May Day is coming. We are making plans for traveling. We’ll go on a trip to Hainan. It’s a good place for holidays and my aunt lives there, too. I hope to travel with her. My mother also hopes this holiday will come very soon. Sanya is a beautiful city in Hainan. It’s warm in May. When we get there, we’ll see flowers everywhere (到处). I can wear skirts there. We can see the sea (大海) there and swim in the sea. We’ll take a lot of photos. We also want to visit some other places of interest in Hainan. Oh, I think the food there is different from ours. It must be very delicious. It’s wonderful!

Twelve-year-old Zhou Xinyue planned the May Day holiday trip for her family. Instead of going to the beach, she chose four revolutionary sites(革命遗址) in South China’s Guangdong province.

“I have heard my classmates talking about the East River Column, but I don’t know much about its history, so I wanted to visit the memorial(纪念馆) to learn about it. My parents and elder brother were happy to join me,” she said.

Revolutionary sites have become a travel hit during the May Day holiday. As of 3 pm on Saturday, the first day of the five day holiday, 13 “red tourism(红色旅游)” sites in Guangdong received 23, 000 visits, up by 298.9 percent year on year, according to the provincial culture and tourism department(省文化旅游厅).

The department recently introduced a “red tourism” passport, which includes 30 revolutionary sites in the province and covers, technologies and treasure finding games. The passport has attracted many young people to these sites during the holiday.

“The visit was good, and I have set a goal to visit all the sites and get all the stamps in my red tourism passport this year,” said Xu Sheng, a visitor to the peasant movement institute(农民运动研究所) in Guangzhou.

In Shaoshan, Central China’s Henan province, the hometown of late Chairman Mao Zedong, visits queued in line to visit the former house of Mao.

Visitors also took photos on the Mao Zedong Square, decorated with flowers and written with the words “Centenary of the Communist Party of China(中国共产党百年诞辰)”.

According to the Travel Go online platform, the number of fights to red tourism destinations during the Qingming Festival and May Day holiday this year was 15.6% of all fights booked. It is an increase of 4% compared with the same period in 2019.

To celebrate the centenary of the Communist Party of China, the culture and tourism authorities in Shanghai and East China’s provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui also offered a series of red tourism—themed activities.

Yan’an, a city rich in revolutionary resources in Northwest China’s Shannxi province, designed ten red tourism routes for the May Day holiday. Dance performances and shows are staged in a red tourism—themed train heading for Yan’an.