China Travel & Tourism News

China's Airline Companies have transported more than 280,000 passengers on the first day of the Spring Festival transportation. According to the General Administration of Civil A...

Clogau Gold of Wales has confirmed that 14 jobs will go in north Wales as it switches production of gold jewellery to China. The company had previously moved production of its sil...

MANILA, Jan. 26 -- Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal have launched a coordinated tourism marketing program to promote the subregion's tourism industry with the theme of "Nat...

Xiamen, a traffic hub in east China's Fujian Province, saw a record passenger flow in 2004, due to increased contacts between the Chinese mainland and other parts of the world. S...

The inbound tourists to the Chinese mainland reached 109.04 million in 2004, breaking the 100 million mark for the first time. This earned the foreign exchange revenue up to 25.7...

China's shipbuilding industry built 8.5 million tons of ships in 2004, once again third most in the world, the position it has held since 1995, according to China's Commission of S...

China's defense industry experienced rapid growth last year, with its annual turnover, industrial value added and product revenue have increased 21.7 percent, 26.8 percent and 26.4...

A long-awaited rally took place on China's stock market yesterday thanks to the nation's stamp tax cut, but analysts said this recovery may be short-lived if it is not followed up ...

BEIJING, January 25 -- Air Canada announced that effective June 2, 2005 it will introduce non-stop service between Toronto and Beijing, further building its main Toronto hub with m...

CHENGDU, Jan. 25 -- France wants to attract more Chinese travelers to not only Paris, but also the little mountainous towns with unique cultures, Jean-Marie Bockel, mayor of Mulho...

SHANGHAI: The city will step up efforts to attract quality professionals from abroad as part of a new human resource plan for this year. "Shanghai is striving to shape itsel...

China's economy expanded at its fastest pace in eight years in 2004, growing at an annual rate of 9.5 percent over the year before to $1.65 trillion despite efforts to slow growth,...

The number of passengers is expected to reach 1.97 billion during China's Spring Festival transport season, a 40-day period due to beginning on Tuesday, according to forecast of Ch...

Ninety-seven percent of customers on the Chinese mainland dine at fast food restaurants, putting China in the top five out of the 28 markets recently surveyed by pollster company A...

China will export ship engines with a total value of 160 billion yuan (US$19.32 billion), according to a contract signed Sunday. The contract was signed in Beijing between the Sh...

East China's Shanghai port exported 45.4 billion US dollars worth of new- and high-tech products in 2004, a growth of 72 percent over the previous-year level. About 88.6 percent ...

Twenty-eight major silk exporters have formed a group to watch and co-ordinate silk exports, especially silk fabric exports to India. The companies also issued a statement, appea...

Chinese people are expected to buy 5.8 million cars this year, a year-on-year rise of 12 percent, said Xu Changming, director of the economic consultative center under the State In...

Shanghai plans to build a "space city" to assist China's ambitious astronaut program, which includes a space walk within the next few years. The country's largest city ...

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) issued an official circular on January 23 calling for strengthening and improving the building of the CPC organizations ...

Winter is normally the slack season for farming, but an area of countryside near Beijing is still busy this winter. Many city dwellers are choosing to spend their weekends ou...

Only a week before the first direct flights between the mainland and Taiwan, airlines running the charter flights are advertising their services and discounts to attract more custo...

South China's Guangdong Province is expecting a 10 per cent economic growth this year after a 14.2 per cent increase last year, aiming at a more sustainable economy. The provinci...

China and relevant countries will begin feasibility study very soon for an East Asia Free Trade Area which will cover China, Japan, the Republic of Korea and the 10- member ASEAN n...

Cheng Siwei, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, promised to create a favorable environment to spur the venture capital market in China. To t...

Germany's national carrier Lufthansa Airlines opened its first China customer service and support centre in Shanghai yesterday in a further commitment to the Chinese market. ...

The inbound tourists to the Chinese mainland reached 109.04 million in 2004, breaking the 100 million mark for the first time. This earned the foreign exchange revenue up to ...

Xiamen, a traffic hub in east China's Fujian Province, saw a record passenger flow in 2004, due to increased contacts between the Chinese mainland and other parts of the world. ...

Beijing's contractual and actual foreign investment set a 10-year record in 2004, with funds attracted to the manufacturing and tertiary industries making a significant contributio...

A phalanx of Chinese auto makers are racing after overseas stock listings, especially in Hong Kong, to facilitate their expansion plans, despite the growing glut of vehicles, due t...