China Travel & Tourism News

China's foreign exchange reserves have topped 900 billion U.S. dollars, remaining the world's largest ahead of Japan, the China Securities Journal reported in Beijing Wednesday. ...

The State Administration of Taxation (SAT) will slash export tax rebates to rein in the surging exports of resource-intensive products, the Shanghai Morning Post reported on Wednes...

Chinese State Councilor Chen Zhili joined crowds of people to visit an exhibition of precious cultural relics held in Beijing on Saturday, China's first "Cultural Heritage Day". ...

Construction of a new airport in Mohe, China's northmost county will start late this month, according to the local government information. On completion, it will be the only air...

Malaysia and the United States on Monday kicked off the first round of talks on the free trade agreement (FTA). Officials from the two countries started the five-day negotiatio...

The Chinese government will allow "a reasonable transitional period" to help foreign-funded companies adjust to a new tax system that scraps their privileges of more than 15 years....

Tourists on the road from Shanghai to the Yellow Mountain (a.k.a. Huangshan Mountain) will have their driving time cut by at least 2 hours when the Anhui-Hangzhou Highway opens bef...

A new Russian folk culture museum will provide visitors with a glimpse into the history of the Burqin county in northwest China's Xinjiang Uigur Autonomous Region when it opens at ...

China is a superb tourist destination with a rich history and an enormous number of sights, such as Beijing to Tibet via Xi'an's terracotta warriors, following the Silk Road route,...

China has the highest mountains and deepest valleys in the world, deserts and fertile loess plains, dark pine forests and tropical rain forests, and rivers which are amongst the lo...

BESIDES China, where are the other bright spots of economic growth in Asia in recent years? One might think of India, another rising economic power in the East. Or perhaps Viet...

You have probably felt the urge to do something different. Life isn't only about what you see and do in your own country, hometown or school, or even with your friends. What ...

Throughput capacity of Chinese seaports will grow more than 80 percent from the current 2.89 billion tons in the next five years, according to Vice Minister of Communications Xu Zu...

China's more than 5,000 accounting firms are expected to undergo more market-driven mergers and acquisitions in the coming years in a bid to tackle competition from foreign counter...

The government plans to open the futures markets to financial institutions and foreign investors while making it easier for domestic firms to hedge in overseas futures markets, gov...

European Union Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson is to hold talks with China's Minister of Commerce Bo Xilai in China next month, ministry spokesman Chong Quan said Monday. ...

More than 150 senior businessexecutives from Republic of Korea (ROK) companies attending the Hong Kong-Shenzhen seminar have shown strong interest in the businessenvironments and i...

Chinese steel mills have decided to continue negotiations over the price of iron ore with major foreign miners, the China Iron and Steel Association (ISA) said Tuesday to the denia...

Expats who need basic information about Shanghai can now turn to a free hotline offered by the municipal government. The Shanghai Call Centre, which was officially launched on ...

Guiyang, the capital of southwestern China's Guizhou province, has been crowned China's top summer resort in China by several non-governmental institutions including the China Inst...

Southwest China's Sichuan province is promoting a new travel package targetting travellers interested in Chinese history and culture. "The Tour of the Three Kingdoms" is a loop...

Determined to grasp the opportunities offered by the new Qinghai-Tibet railway, Qinghai has started promoting its three tourism "calling cards" - the railway, Qinghai Lake and Tibe...

"I had once been trapped at where David Sharp died and a dozen climbers, including Sharp, walked past me," Chinese female mountaineer Luo Lili said, "At 8,534 metes where Sharp di...

Hong Kong's tourist arrivals rose 9.5 percent in April from a year earlier to 2.1 million, helped by an increase in visitors from China, the Hong Kong Tourism Board said. ...

BEIJING, May 25 -- Although the Grand Canal is one of the two greatest man-made wonders that remain from ancient China--the other being the Great Wall--it is often neglected as a c...

Adjacent to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the Huaihe, Yanhe and Huaishu New rivers, and the Subei Irrigation Channel, Huai'an was formerly a hub of water transportation. Its de...

Hong Kong's first "ecological theme park", the Hong Kong Wetland Park, is making its debut in May. The Wetland Park is located in New Territory in northern Hong Kong. The Park ...

CHINA Southern Airlines has added a twice-weekly Hainan-Singapore flight. Departing on Tuesday and Friday from Haikou in Hainan, the route will be served by Boeing 737 aircraft....

BEIJING, May 25 -- A program to collect ideas from citizens about a facelift for the damaged surface of the Great Wall has ended recently. Organizers have received over 6,0...

Star Alliance, the world's largest airline grouping, have added yet another new name to those they are working with when yesterday Air China Ltd signed a Memorandum of Understandin...