Millions of visitors pour in for Qingdao beer fest

The 29th Qingdao International Beer Festival, which concludes on Sunday, is being held at Golden Beach Beer City in the Xihai'an (West Coast) New Area in the city's Huangdao district.

Initiated in 1991 and hailed as Asia's Oktoberfest, the Qingdao festival is the largest of its kind in Asia and one of China's biggest tourism events.

Over 300,000 people attended the event's opening day on July 26, and more than 5 million visitors consumed over 2,150 metric tons of beer by Tuesday.