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BEIJING, May 21 -- Chinese stocks rose on Monday despite an increase in interest rates and bank reserve requirement announced on Friday. The benchmark Shanghai Composite In...

BEIJING, May 21 -- Europe's largest engineering firm Siemens has signed an agreement to become the sixth global partner of World Expo 2010 Shanghai. Siemens, the first ...

BERLIN, May 20 (Xinhua) -- German engineering giant Siemens AG on Sunday named Peter Loescher as its new CEO to succeed Klaus Kleinfeld, who is to step down on June 30. The...

BEIJING, May 15 -- More people in Guangdong province have been turning to overseas banks since they started providing retail yuan services on the Chinese mainland, a recent survey ...

BEIJING, May 15 -- The organizers of the 2010 Shanghai World Expo yesterday announced they will invite cities from around the world to display their greatest features at the Urban ...

BEIJING, May 15 -- The Weihe River, the largest tributary of the Yellow River, is seriously polluted and local officials say it requires long-term remedial treatment. "...

BEIJING, May 15 -- Shanghai's consumer watchdog released the country's first industry guidelines for home decoration companies to improve service and communication with cli...

A Beijing guidebook with more than one hundred photos and maps and text written by a former UNESCO official has been published in both Chinese and English versions. The guideboo...

Mainland tourism authorities and their counterparts in Hong Kong will work together to crack down on "zero-fee" package tours which are hurting the industry. The measur...

Qianmen Street, south of Tian'anmen Square in the heart of Beijing, was closed to traffic at midnight on Wednesday. It is to become the second pedestrian thoroughfare in the...

A total of 891 flights were handled at the Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) on Thursday, setting a new daily record in HKIA's history, a spokesman for the Civil Aviation ...

The 2007 national kite-flying festival will be held in Yinchuan, capital city of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in northwest China on Saturday. The two-day kite-flying festival, ...

A conference on Shaanxi's tourism industry was held on April 6 in Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province. Northwest China's Shaanxi Province saw more than 70...

As spring arrives, tourism industry in Tibet also booms. Local tourism bureau is regulating the market, renovating the scenic sites in advance and preparing for the May Day golden ...

As spring arrives, tourism industry in Tibet also booms. Local tourism bureau is regulating the market, renovating the scenic sites in advance and preparing for the May Day golden ...

China's historic Silk Road is poised for a grand reopening. A broad new tourism effort calls for the historic Silk Road to be open to visitors across a wide swath of the co...

As spring arrives, tourism industry in Tibet also booms. Local tourism bureau is regulating the market, renovating the scenic sites in advance and preparing for the May Day golden ...

The number of people who made individual tours to Hong Kong from the mainland has exceeded 18 million by turnstile count, said Ambrose Lee Siu-kwong, Secretary for Security of the ...

A 75-meter-long retired submarine is to become the center-piece exhibit in China's first submarine museum in northeast China's port city of Dalian, Liaoning Province. Ac...

Thirty hotels owned by the state-owned China Postal Group (CPG) were put up for sale on the Shanghai United Assets and Equity Exchange on Thursday. "This is another major mo...

Beijing played host to 436,000 overseas tourists in the first two months of the year, a year-on-year rise of 6.7 percent, said sources with the municipal statistics bureau Saturday...

Visitor arrivals from the Chinese mainland increased by 6,500 (76 percent) in February 2007, compared with February 2006, Statistics New Zealand said Tuesday. It said some of t...

March 19 was named "China Day" at the second Moscow International Trade Fair for Travel and Tourism, Vladimir Strzhalkovsky, director of the Russian Federal Tourism Bureau,...

Northeastern city of Shenyang will hold the World Cultural and Natural Heritage Expo for five months from June 9 to October 9, a local official said on Friday. The expo, sponso...

A cultural exhibition sponsored by the New Zealand government opened in Beijing Tuesday to mark the 35th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and New Zealand. "...

Chengdu reaped the benefits of its efforts to develop itself into a leading city for tourists in 2006. Sources from the municipal tourism bureau say the revenue from tourism reache...

MUNICIPAL governments in Fujian and Jilin provinces have announced they will turn their attention to regional tourism in 2007. In Fujian, the Xiamen municipal government plans to a...

Nearly 600 performers from Beijing on Saturday staged a large parade for nearly two hours in Hollywood in an effort to showcase traditional Chinese culture to the American public a...

A new airport will be built at the source of three main Chinese rivers, the Yangtze, Yellow and Lancang rivers in northwest China, to boost economic development in this underdevelo...

THE National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) of China has approved plans to expand Shanghai's Hongqiao Airport. According to the commission, the airport expansion w...