Customers shop for gold at a jewelry store in Huai'an, East China's Jiangsu Province on December 25, 2023. As the New Year and the Spring Festival holidays approach, gold and silver jewelry items are selling well across the country, despite high retail prices, which range from 570 yuan ($79.87) per gram to 590 yuan per gram. In the first 11 months of 2023, China's gold reserves reached 71.58 million troy ounces, up 380,000 troy ounces from October. Photo: VCG