China Travel & Tourism News

Just one day ahead of the opening of the Beijing Olympic Games, The New York Times published an editorial by its commentator and former correspondent in China, Nicholas D. Kristof,...

Russian synchronized swimming pair Anastasia Davydova and Anastasia Ermakova retained the Olympic duet title with a near-perfect performance at the Water Cube here on Wednesday. ...

Fabian Hambuechen of Germany, bronze medalist in men's horizontal bar match of Beijing Olympics, performs on the horizontal bar during a gymnastics artistic gala of the Beijing...

BEIJING, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- Olga Kaniskina of Russia claimed the title of women's 20-kilometer walk race at the Beijing Olympics in teeming rain on Thursday morning. Ka...

BEIJING, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- Thursday's men's 10-kilometer marathon swimming was full of dramas as Dutchman Maarten van der Meijden made a last minute dash to take the gold...

BEIJING, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Don Porter, President of International Softball Federation (ISF), said here Wednesday that he was optimistic about the sport's reinstatement onto t...

BEIJING, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Olympic marketing could fuel Chinese sponsors' drive to go global, and likely to foster China's own "Coca Cola", Olympic commercial chi...

A volunteer shows the commemorative envelopes marking the gold medalists of China during the 29th Olympic Games, in Beijing, China, Aug. 19, 2008. These commemorative envelopes, ea...

Watch Video BEIJING, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- "Look at the website of Xinhua, you see the latest news, you see the gold medals and you see all the excitement of the Olympic g...

"These five rings -- blue, yellow, black, green and red -- represent the five parts of the world now encompassed by Olympism and ready to compete against each other. Moreover, ...

The sailing events for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad will be held within Qingdao International Sailing Center, the five water areas outside Fushan Bay. A unique blend of sea an...

By Sportswriter Gao Peng BEIJING, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- China looked set to knock the United States off the top of Olympics medal table as the hosts' gold juggernaut was i...

BEIJING, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- The American superfish Michael Phelps who took eight golds at the Olympics has said it is harder for him to learn the Chinese language than to win gold...

BEIJING, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian defending champions Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos were defeated in men's beach volleyball semifinal at the Beijing Olympics on Wednesda...

By Sportswriters Song Ying and Li Li BEIJING, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- History repeated. Victories came again. As the last one to compete on parallel bars, China's ace...

BEIJING, Aug 19 (Xinhua) -- The medals around the necks of the victorious athletes at the Beijing Olympics are among the best in Games' history, organizing officials and medal ...

BEIJING, Aug. 17 -- Living in a traditional courtyard house and becoming a part of a Chinese family were not exactly what Odette Reich had planned when she and her husband Thimo va...

BEIJING, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Liu Xiang's head coach Sun Haiping broke into tears in the press conference while hailing his student as a "fighter". "He has be...

MADRID, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Spaniard tennis player Rafael Nadal on Monday became officially number one in the world, after the release of latest ATP world rankings. Rafael Na...

BEIJING, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Tian Jia and Wang Jie of China won over their compatriots Zhang Xi and Xue Chen in the semifinals of beach volleyball tournament at the Beijing Olympic...

QINGDAO, China, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Paul Goodison claimed Lasergold at the Olympic Sailing Regatta here on Tuesday, winning thethird gold for Britain in the regatta. Taking...

By Chad Lee SYDNEY, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- The American superfish Michael Phelps has completely dominated the headlines during the Olympic swimming competition at the Water...

BEIJING, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Chinese world champion He Chong continued his supremacy in men's 3m springboard semifinals at Beijing Olympics on Tuesday morning. He, curr...

BEIJING, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Chinese celebrity hurdler Liu Xiang said on state television that he feels "very sorry" for his injury-forced withdrawal from the Olympic Games...

BEIJING, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- China's education watchdog has opened a 24-hour hotline for students who want to go to university but cannot afford the tuition fees. The h...

By Ji Shaoting and Lin Shiyun BEIJING, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Icons of China such as the National Stadium, a major venue of the on-going Olympic Games, and ancient residences ...

COLOMBO, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Tourist arrivals from China to Sri Lanka grew by 7.3 percent in the first half of 2008 over the same period a year ago, Sri Lanka's national carrie...

BEIJING, Aug. 15 --As the Beijing Games continues to draw the attention of billions of sports fans worldwide, so the Olympex has been a carnival for philatelists and collectors of ...

BEIJING, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- China will be the first country to install million-kilowatt (kw) air-cooling systems in ultra-supercritical coal-fired power plants, an official with t...

NAIROBI, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- China Development Bank, a development-oriented major financial institution in China, on Thursday signed an agreement with the PTA Bank on providing the...