China Travel & Tourism News

The Beijing-Tianjin intercity rail project has broken ground on July 4 at the boundary between Beijing and Tianjin. The project is scheduled to open to traffic by June 2008 in time...

China has so far signed bilateral aviation agreements with 22 European Union member nations, according to the source from the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China (CAA...

First Data Corp.(FDC), the global e-business and payment service giant, is very "excited" about China's growing banking card market, which is believed to augur huge busin...

China's central bank has launched an online personal credit system in eight provinces and municipalities. Under the system, individuals with bad credit records will find it more di...

China's third-largest oil and gas producer CNOOC Ltd has voluntarily requested the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to review its acquisition plan for U...

China is very likely to overcome the energy bottleneck by tapping its own mineral resources, said a Chinese official at a forum being held over the weekend in Weihai City, east Chi...

China entered in 2004 the fourth year in the implementation of its brand-building strategy and selection of famous products. In the four years, 479 enterprises had developed 547 ...

China is expected to become the world's second largest aviation market after the United States in the next two decades, a senior Airbus official has predicted, quoting by Saturday'...

Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi said here on Monday that China hopes France will play a positive role in promoting the steady development of Sino-EU textile trade. Wu told visitin...

Chinese shoemakers have vowed to act in unity after the European Union opened an anti-dumping investigation into its work shoe exports. "We have to stand up against the EU p...

China has decided to scrap value-added tax exemption for home-made steel products used for exports as of July 1, 2005, the Ministry of Finance said Friday. According to a doc...

The Chinese government and the US government held their first energy policy dialogue in Washington on June 30. US Energy Secretary Sam Bodman and Zhang Guobao, Vice Minister of Chi...

The Junyao Group, a privately-owned Chinese conglomerate involved in aviation, dairy and real estate, has got the green-light to set up a new airline, company authority said here F...

Exchange rate is a most influential macro-economic signal to any open economies, a slight move of which in one part may affect the situation as a whole. People may count on a chang...

When it comes to find the best place to lay an investment, China is most likely to be the top choice for most foreign investors, according to a survey released in Paris on Wednesda...

German conglomerate Siemens AG is beginning to downsize staff in its money-losing handset business in China, following its plan to sell its handset unit to Taiwan-based BenQ early ...

Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs of Columbia University, who is Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals and Director of the UN Millennium P...

Stay out of it. That's what corporate America is doing, and that's what some outspoken executives are advising the US Government to do about Chinese oil firm CNOOC's US$18.5 billio...

A hasty yuan revaluation could result in domestic deflation and several rounds of international currency adjustments, an influential Chinese newspaper warned Wednesday. An ar...

Prudential Financial Inc. said Wednesday it was still looking for a successor to the chief executive of its Chinese fund management joint venture, after media reports said it might...

China will restore value-added tax on high-end, export-oriented steel products after a six-year hiatus for its largest producers — a move analysts said should keep more of th...

Record high world oil prices could force China to delay the filling of its strategic reserve indefinitely, officials involved in the project said. "We won't be building ...

China's consumer price index (CPI), the leading inflation index, recorded a 1.8-percent increase in April and May, reflecting a continual downward trend, according to a monthly rep...

China on Monday criticized the European Union's plan to launch an antidumping probe on Chinese shoe exports, calling it a violation of free trade. China believes the EU has based ...

Despite widespread rumors about appreciation of Chinese currency, Renminbi (RMB) yuan, a noted Chinese economist said he believes the exchange rate of RMB will remain stable in the...

China has handled 24,189 trademark infringement cases and seized more than 167 million pieces of illegal audio-video products and pirated products since the country launched a mass...

With the rapid increase of overseas travel operators in China, the State Tourism Administration has decided to adopt measures to strengthen management over the market in a bid to p...

One of China's leading television manufacturers Hisense will use a new system-on-chip (soc), which was developed by itself, in its high-definition televisions. The socs, named &q...

China is expected to launch its first bank-run fund in July, less than a month after the government gave the go-ahead to the country's first bank-operated fund-management company. ...

The Chinese government is introducing a series of policy measures with the aim of stimulating the domestic stock markets, and hopefully reverse a decline that has sent the benchmar...