China Travel & Tourism News

BEIJING, July 9 -- An international beach festival will open in the coastal city of Dalian in northeast China's Liaoning Province on July 15. The China News Service rep...

The Beijing Municipal government has spent nearly 4 billion yuan (US$526 million) to give two of its key 30-year-old-plus metro lines a facelift prior to next summer's Olympics...

The Great Wall of China was named as one of the new seven wonders of the world on Saturday in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon. Brazil's Statue of Christ Redeemer, Peru's...

Cebu Pacific, the Philippines' second largest airlines company, will start direct flights from Manila to four destinations in China at lower fares, a local daily newspaper repo...

BEIJING, July 5 -- PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the world's largest accounting firm, announced it will admit 55 new partners in China to support growth that has surged more th...

BEIJING, July 5 -- China's pork prices continued to rise this month, but that factor alone will not significantly push up the consumer price index (CPI), analysts said. ...

BEIJING, July 5 -- The tourism regulator is working on details to further open the market to foreign operators by lowering capital requirements and allowing subsidiaries. F...

BEIJING, June 28 -- The China Financial Futures Exchange (CFFEX) Wednesday said the China Securities Regulatory Commission has approved the trading rules, a crucial step toward the...

BEIJING, June 28 -- The U.S. chipmaker AMD says China will become its single-largest market in 18 months, as the company aims to further challenge Intel's dominance. He...

GENEVA, June 27 (Xinhua) -- The Swiss government wants to make sure the country's merchant navy stays afloat and has decided to further boost its financial guarantee, the offic...

STOCKHOLM, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Norway's Central Bank Norges Bank's Executive Board decided on Wednesday to raise its key policy rate (sight deposit rate) by 0.25 percentage...

BEIJING, June 28 -- The last two of the first four strategic oil reserve bases in China, the world's second-biggest oil consumer, are expected to kick off operations within a y...

VISITOR arrivals to Nepal grew 49.6 per cent in May to 27,759 compared to the same period a year ago. Except for Sri Lanka, which suffered a dip of 28 per cent, Nepal saw strong...

Greece and China agreed on Wednesday to take a series of actions aimed to boosting bilateral tourism relations, starting with finalizing a date on holding a joint Greek-China commi...

Tourism will play an even larger role in boosting Tibet's economic growth by 2010, when the region is expected to receive 6 million tourists from across the globe, twice as man...

Beijing is planning to build 15 parks in its outskirts this year, and to boost the total number of suburb parks to 60 by 2008, the Star Daily reported on Tuesday. The report qu...

Shanghai's Oriental Pearl TV Tower and Wild Animal Park were crowned as two of China's top-grade scenic spot, according to a list today published on the official Website of...

The second International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Aeronautical Telecommunication Network Implementation Co-ordination Group Meeting for the Asia-Pacific Region opened in ...

BEIJING, May 30 (Xinhua) -- China needs a legal framework to strengthen the supervision over the financial market, the central bank said in a report released on Wednesday. ...

BEIJING, June 1 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government will continue to pay great attention to exported food safety, said an official with the country's quality control watchdog on...

BRUSSELS, May 31 (Xinhua) -- The economic confidence in the euro zone climbed to a six-year new high in May, thanks to never better consumer confidence, the European Commission sai...

ROME, May 31 (Xinhua) -- Italy has pulled itself out of economic slump but GDP growth remains among the lowest in the eurozone, Bank of Italy Governor Mario Draghi said during the ...

HELSINKI, May 31 (Xinhua) -- Neste Oil Corporation inaugurated officially new biodiesel plant at its Porvoo refinery in Finland on Thursday. Neste Oil Corporation has inves...

BEIJING, Jun. 1 -- Bank of Communications (BoCom) has made a bid to acquire 85 percent of a once nearly bankrupt trust firm in Central China's Hubei Province. The move ...

BEIJING, Jun. 1 -- Chinese insurance companies will soon be allowed to invest in equities in overseas markets, a senior official of the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC)...

BEIJING, June 1 (Xinhuanet) -- The family that controls Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, has softened its stance toward media mogul Rupuert Murdoch and will c...

BEIJING, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong-listed fabric maker Huafeng Textile International Group is expected to become the first non-Korean company to list on the exchange of Republic...

KUWAIT CITY, May 20 (Xinhua) -- At least 15 companies are expected to tender bids for the fourth refinery that Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) intends to construct in al-Z...

BEIJING, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Chinese railways have seen record numbers of passengers and record freight volume since the country hiked up rail speeds on April 18, said the Ministry ...

BEIJING, May 21 -- Chinese stocks, the world's best performers this year, fell after the country's central bank raised interest rates to cool an investment boom in the worl...