China Travel & Tourism News

Mainland authorities Monday will start talks with a Taiwanese opposition delegation about allowing direct cross-Straits charter flights during the upcoming Spring Festival holiday....

You can experience Spring Festival in imperial style for yourself at a grand spectacle in the Imperial Palace at Shenyan, the capital city of Liaoning Province. The festivities w...

BEIJING, Jan. 10 -- With the Lunar New Year less than a month away, many Chinese are making travel plans for the upcoming seven-day holiday. This year, more are expected to head ov...

The United States and China have agreed to a reciprocal visa arrangement with both sides offering 12-month multiple-entry business and tourist visas. The long-awaited move will ...

Ford Motor Co. has announced that the Chinese government has approved its new car joint venture with its Japanese unit Mazda and China's Chang'an Motor Corp. The new venture, to ...

The number of flexible workers in China's cities and towns has soared to over 50 million, making up 18 percent of total urban employees. The major types of flexible workers are t...

China's banking authorities have issued two new risk management and internal control regulations for commercial banks in order to urge them to operate more efficiently and securely...

Beijing Enterprises Holdings, the investment arm of the city government, said it may sell its tourism concerns to focus on infrastructure business even though the Olympic Games in ...

Economic cooperation between China and Russia developed rapidly in 2004, with trade hitting the record 20 billion US dollars, said a senior commerce official. Speaking at a trade...

From January to November 2004, the trade volume between China and Europe had reached US$ 159.3 bln, 34.7 percent higher as against the same period in 2003. The EU has surpassed Jap...

HONG KONG, China -- China Netcom Group plans to pay around $1 billion for 20 percent of Hong Kong phone company PCCW Ltd., sources closed to the deal said on Wednesday, a much high...

The Shenzhen Metro had a busy New Year holiday with more than 700,000 passengers taking to the subway over the past three days, sources from Shenzhen Metro Co. Ltd. said Monday. S...

The Frequent Flier Club, the first of its kind in the Chinese mainland, now has 2 million members, announced Air China in Beijing on Tuesday. Since it launched the club 10 years ...

SHANGHAI, Jan 6 - Top Chinese TV maker Changhong , which is suing U.S. distributor Apex to wrest back an alleged half-billion dollars in debt, said on Thursday it has won a $360 mi...

SINGAPORE, Jan 6 - Top Chinese offshore oil and gas producer CNOOC Ltd. is holding talks to buy the Asian assets of a foreign oil company, sources close to the parties said on Thur...

The Fortune magazine (Chinese Edition) conducted a survey on the top 10 commercial cities in Chinese mainland at the end of last year. The survey showed that Shanghai, Beijing, She...

HANOI, Jan. 6 (Xinhuanet) -- Vietnam, which is not hit by tsunamislast month, has received more foreign tourists in the first days of 2005, according to the Vietnam National Admini...

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Wednesday expressed China's condolences to the tsunami-hit countries and said that China will increase its aid to the disaster-stricken countries. Wen ...

BEIJING, Jan. 5 -- An international consulting company says the economic impact of the tsunamis may not be as severe as initially thought. The director of the New Your based ...

BEIJING, Jan. 5 -- Chinese experts have called on the country to further support the export of commodities with the promotion of China-owned brands and intellectual property rights...

SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Xinhuanet) -- South Korea's Culture and Tourism Minister Chung Dong-chae, who also chairs the World Tourism Organization (WTO), will convene an emergency WTO executi...

Pushed by a series of macro control policies, China's industrial economy has maintained smooth and rapid progress from Jan to Nov in 2004. The production and supply of coal, electr...

Hong Kong remains as the world's freest economy for the 11th consecutive year according to the Heritage Foundation's annual ranking. The Heritage Foundation released its 2005 Ind...

Eighteen missing Beijing mountaineers climbing Mount Xiaowutai in neighbouring Hebei Province were back in contact with a rescue team last night and were headed safely home, offici...

Hong Kong Art Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, the exhibition of the Buddha's sarira from Xi'an Famen Buddhist Temple, Asia Cultural Co-operation Forum ... the orga...

China's coal industry is expected to fall short of demand in 2005, with some areas possibly being hit by striking shortfalls, even though coal production will post robust growth. ...

The Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) announced anti-dumping import duties would be imposed on certain optical fibres made in the United States, Japan and Republic of Korea (ROK) start...

Shanghai will increase the number of hotels in the city by more than 10 percent next year to make room for more tourists from both inside the country and overseas, local tourism au...

Construction has started on two railway links located in central and eastern China that will cut 12 hours off the travel time from Shanghai to Wuhan in Hubei Province, the Shanghai...

The population in the Chinese mainland is expected to reach 1.3 billion on Jan. 6, according to a prediction the National Statistics Bureau (NSB) released Sunday. The day has bee...