China Travel & Tourism News

BEIJING, Jan. 4 -- The biggest man-made ski run in North China has become a hot tourist destination this winter. The Shen Nong ski resort is located in Changzhi city and has ...

A Chinese automaker founded in 1997 has signed a deal with a privately held New York company to sell Chinese-made cars to Americans in 2007. Chery Automobile Co., one of the faste...

China's central government allocated 3.2 billion yuan (US$385.6 million) and 33,900 tents for disaster relief, and resettled 6.11 million disaster victims in 2004, said sources wit...

Eighty-eight new laws and regulations take effect on the first day of the New Year that cover a wide range of areas including foreign trade, taxation, advertising standards and sup...

Mandarin's status as China's standard language has been further enhanced as nearly 53 percent of the 1.3 billion Chinese in the country can communicate with others via Mandarin, sa...

The Chinese mainland will work hard to promote the launching of charter flights across the Taiwan Straits during the Spring Festival, the Chinese Lunar New Year, and welcomes Taiwa...

China on Saturday reported sharp increases in the number of foreign tourists and tourism dollars in the first 11 months in 2004, jumping by around 20 percent and 50 percent year-on...

East China's Zhejiang Province, home to such renowned scenic spots as the West Lake, earned more than 100 billion yuan (12 billion US dollars) in tourism revenue in 2004, up 30 per...

The subway system of Shanghai transported 470 million passengers in 2004, a record high for the city of about 18 million people, the Shanghai Subway Company said Sunday. The thre...

A promised hike in social security allowances is making the holiday season much warmer. This winter's weather may be colder than last year but widowed farmer Liu Yulan, 71, is no...

Hong Kong's 167,000 civil servants have been asked by their boss to donate funds for victims of the devastating tsunami that battered Asia. ``We are all shocked and saddened by th...

Walking into the Wulingyuan scenic area in Zhangjiajie, Central China's Hunan Province, may soon cost a little more. Following a public hearing yesterday, the entrance fare to th...

Macro-control: "China, on the long march towards the modernization has taken in a cup of refreshing juice, readjusted its paces for the time to come and added in some fuels&qu...

Reconstruction at Beijing's Nangong medical waste facility was completed Tuesday, and it is now boosted by new investment. The wastage of over 300 medical institutions will be conv...

BEIJING, Dec. 29 -- British Airways is considering flying to new mainland destinations to take advantage of a more liberal air services regime between China and Britain. ...

The Shanghai Stock Exchange will issue a new index on the first trading day of 2005 to track the 50 companies with the highest dividend payments, the exchange announced yesterday. ...

With nationals still missing, China has joined the international aid effort in South and Southeast Asia -- a rescue mission which is set to become the world's biggest after tsunami...

SHANGHAI - Top Chinese TV maker Changhong said on Wednesday it had ended a tie-up with U.S. distributor Apex, a major supplier of cheap DVD players that owes it $467.5 million. Th...

A grand snow carnival featuring fancy snow carvings, real-size ice sculptures, air acrobatic performance and various winter sports competitions is set to kick off next month in sub...

Hong Kong's wealthy expat community has been left counting the cost of Sunday's massive tsunami that ripped through the Thai beach resort of Phuket, laying waste to thousands of mi...

The income from China's national film industry has broken records, soaring by 66% this year. Total takings were 3.6 billion Yuan. This does not include sometimes considerable adv...

India is one of China's neighboring countries, and the trade between the two countries has expanded rapidly with gradual expansion of exchange commodities and with continuous incre...

The year 2004 has witnessed Hong Kong's economy on the right track of overall recovery after setbacks and downturn. Although the annual statistical report of the Hong Kong Specia...

China's massive project to transfer natural gas from the Tarim Basin of Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region all the way to the coastal metropolis of Shanghai in the east will go into ...

China pledged Monday to continue to keep the renminbi exchange rate stable. The People's Bank of China's Monetary Policy Committee decided at its fourth quarter meeting that the ...

A map for gourmets showing specialist local restaurants is to be issued in Nanjing, reports the Jiangsu-based Modern Express. The first of its kind in the nation, the map shows t...

HONG KONG, Dec. 26 (Xinhuanet) -- Hong Kong's Hong Thai Travel Services decided Sunday to cancel two days of tours to Phuket of Thailand, which was affected by a strong earthquake ...

Fares for long-distance coaches will rise by up to 65 percent during the festival traffic peak from Jan. 25 to March 5, 2005. South China's Guangdong provincial pricing bureau Mo...

China Eastern Airlines Corp., one of the country's leading carriers, was to purchase eight 737-300 aircraft from Boeing Co. next year to help it operate on routes to Southeast Asia...

Shanghai will change the way it handles some aspects of foreigner visa alteration, which includes such services as change of visa type, extension, etc. The application process wi...