China Travel & Tourism News

The Netherlands has been wooing Chinese tourists in 2006 with its best-selling honeymoon travel packages. In 2007, it will try to attract even more Chinese travelers by offerin...

Beijing's metro system will stretch to 561 kilometres by 2020, replacing London's Underground as the longest subway system in the world, according to a recently completed c...

Scotland's Glamis Castle and China's Great Wall have signed an agreement on tourism and cultural cooperation to share the two sites' tourist resources. Glamis Castle...

Shanghai's six millionth tourist of the year is expected soon, and the city may hold a party for the lucky visitor, the tourism authority said on Wednesday, a day before the la...

According to Tibet Regional Tourism Administration, Tibet received at least 2 million tourists (an over 30% growth compared with last year), including 150 thousand from overseas, i...

An exhibition of Chinese calligraphy and painting was launched on Tuesday to mark the 7th anniversary of the region's return to the motherland. Li Qiuping, head of the host ...

The Hong Kong Tourism Board and Beijing Municipal Tourism Bureau signed a framework agreement in Hong Kong on Thursday, agreeing to join hands together to attract tourists from maj...

The 2006 China Home Entertainment Fair, the largest of its kind in the country, opened on Thursday in south China's Guangdong Province, attracting hundreds of audiovisual compa...

An Airbus A380 plane will arrive in Hong Kong on Saturday for the start of its seven-day trial flight in China. The plane with 555 seats will fly to Guangzhou, Beijing and Shan...

Fitch Ratings believes China's strong economic growth will sustain in 2007 despite of the slowdown of the US economy. James McCormack, Fitch's head of Asia sovereigns, ...

A United States business delegation to China signed four major deals on Monday, the first day of their trip, as part of a U.S. initiative to address its trade imbalance with China ...

Northeast China boasts the "comparative advantages and conditions" for the country's fourth biggest regional economy only after the Pearl river delta, the Yangtze river...

SHIMAO Group, one of China's fast-growing property development groups, will build the first underwater five-star hotel in China. Due to open in 2009, the Shanghai Shimao Wonder...

CHINA Southern Airlines will launch services between Beijing and Lagos of Nigeria via Dubai on December 30, 2006. Using a new Airbus A330 aircraft, it features Premium Business Cla...

The price of an air ticket from Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, to Tibet has hit a record low of 450 yuan (56.25 U.S. dollars), as many tourists are cho...

An exhibition of a Russian-made robot, spacecraft, and high-tech communication equipment was opened in Beijing's China World Trade Centre on Wednesday. Eight Russian states...

Tibetan government commences a project this year, to set up supermarkets in villages of pasturing areas, framing the consume grid in rural Tibet. According to the plan, 200 supe...

Central China's Shaanxi province has started constructing the Xian-Xianyang Airport expressway, measuring 20.58 km. The two-way eight-lane expressway measures 42 to 45 mete...

The 10th China Mount Huangshan international tourism and local culture festival opened on Saturday amid folk dances and a parade of festooned vehicles. A brief ceremony was held...

CHINA Eastern will lower the baggage weight limit for economy class passengers between China and the US from December 1. While economy class passengers will still be allowed to...

Expo Real Asia 2006, the first large-scale real estate industry conference and exhibition in Macao, will be held from Dec. 4 to 6, 2006, the organizer for the event said in Hong Ko...

A freight train ferry left Lushun in Dalian City, northeast China's Liaoning Province, at 8 a.m. Monday for Yantai, a port city in east China's Shandong Province, marking t...

The Beijing-Tianjin express passenger railway, whose construction is now in full swing, will be completed and put into operation in 2008. The 115.4-km intercity railway starts ...

The third annual China-ASEAN Expo ended here on Friday with a trade volume totaling 1.27 billion U.S. dollars, up 10.2 percent from last year, according to the Expo's organizin...

Ace Hardware Corporation, the largest retailer-owned cooperative in the United States, opened its first China distribution warehouse in Shanghai on Thursday. The warehouse is l...

Chinese and Southeast Asian officials and experts attended a seminar in Nanning on Thursday to discuss energy technology exchanges and cooperation in rural areas. This is the f...

The China Southern Airlines is to launch flights between Beijing and Lagos, the first China-Africa passenger air service by a Chinese air carrier, the company said Wednesday. U...

Border trade has boosted Tibet's economic growth, accounting for more than half of the autonomous region's foreign trade from January to September, the Tibetan Bureau of Co...

The island province of Hainan, south China, recorded a foreign trade volume of 2.1 billion U.S. dollars in the first three quarters this year, up 10 percent from the same period la...

The all-round growth of China-ASEAN business ties has brought "substantive economic benefits" to both sides and become an "important basis" and "strong driving ...