China Travel & Tourism News

LHASA, Feb. 22 (Xinhuanet) -- The Park of Norbug Linkha, the prestigious summer resort of Dalai Lamas in Tibet, will be closed temporarily for major repairs this year. The No...

BEIJING, Feb. 22 -- The growth of China's producer price index (PPI) slowed to 5.8 per cent year-on-year in January, giving fresh evidence in support of China's austerity measures ...

China will boost "red tourism," or visits to former revolutionary bases and landmark sites, through 2010 to promote the "national ethos" and "social-econom...

HONG KONG, Feb. 21 -- Invest Hong Kong and the Shanghai Municipal Government Foreign Economic Relations and Trade Commission (SMERT) announced Monday that they will organize their ...

BEIJING, Feb. 21 -- China has become the world's largest mobile phone producer, attracting increasing investment both from home and abroad. However, experts suggest that investors ...

BEIJING, Feb. 21 -- A total of twenty-one ethnic languages are being taught in more than 10 thousand middle or primary schools across China to improve education among ethnic nation...

China is expected to become an "advanced developed country" in the second half of this century, according to a report published on Friday. The China Modernization Repor...

FUZHOU: Taining Geopark in East China's Fujian Province has been included on the second geoparks list of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESC...

The nation's top civil aviation authority plans to allow a privately funded company to operate an air transportation business as it widens market access to the sector. This marks...

The Internet has become a spectacle in the Chinese society. In the last ten years China's Internet has grown from a marginal industry to a mainstream and still continues to gain gr...

According to a report of Washington's Earth Policy Institute, released on February 18, China has replaced the United States to become the world's No.1 consumer. Among the five basi...

According to a report of Washington's Earth Policy Institute, released on February 18, China has replaced the United States to become the world's No.1 consumer. Among the five basi...

BEIJING, Feb. 21 -- Suo Daming is a 16th-generation descendant of a Beijing family which has lived in the city since the beginning of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Now he has...

Sino-foreign enterprises "join hands'' to make foreign investment in China continue to warm up Since the start of the New Year, there have been repeated reports about transn...

China will launch a new regional program involving four central Asian countries to rejuvenate the Silk Road, a representative from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) sai...

BEIJING, Feb. 18 -- From March 1st, residents in the municipalities of Tianjin and Chongqing will be able to apply for individual travel to Hong Kong and Macao. People in the...

China's automobile market is expected to grow by 10 to 12 percent in 2005, with a market scale of more than 5.6 million units, an automobile expert predicted. "With more man...

LOS ANGELES: Ancient Chinese crafts-men might have learned to use diamonds to grind and polish ceremonial stone burial axes as long as 6,000 years ago, US researchers said on Wedne...

TV mobile phones, dubbed as the "Fifth Media," have not yet seen an opportunity for its rapid growth in China. Experts say it will take some time for TV mobile phones to ...

China's General Administration of Industry and Commerce says it recognized 153 famous trademarks in 2004 and one fifth of them are of foreign origin. These famous trademarks are ...

There is still a long way to go before the much-anticipated middle class becomes a mainstream, accountable group in China. The talk about China's middle class among research inst...

When Chinese Vice-Foreign Minister Wu Dawei and Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran, on behalf of their respective governments, sat together for a "strategic dialogue," ...

FUZHOU, Feb. 18 -- Taining Geopark in east China's Fujian Province has just be included on the second geoparks list of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organ...

The final appraisal of the geoparks was made at the second international conference on geoparks in Paris on Feb.11, 2005, during which four national geoparks, namely, the Yandang M...

China's endangered panda is migrating into forest areas restored by the government, the re-discovery of its dung in northern Shaanxi province indicates. Scatologists identified t...

China has replaced the United States as the world's top consumer, eclipsing the world's richest economy in consumption of four of the five basic food, energy and industrial commodi...

About 2.41 million tourists travelled to Shanghai during the week-long Spring Festival holiday, an increase of 1 percent from the same period last year, according to the Shanghai T...

China's foreign trade remained on the fast track in the first month of 2005 after the country grew into the third largest trader worldwide last year. China's trade volume rose ab...

BEIJING, Feb. 17 -- More and more Chinese families prefer traveling during the Chinese New Year. "My family paid a short visit to Liechtenstein in Europe, whichplans to ...

The prices of commodities in Guangdong Province would rise by 3.8 percent, a recent work meeting of the provincial pricing bureau was told. The meeting was told the consumer price...