China Travel & Tourism News

China will introduce no more unexpected changes in reforming the exchange rate of its currency, the RMB yuan, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao announced here on Tuesday. "There ...

Tourists (bottom L) watch for the long-awaited rupture of the leading edge of the Perito Moreno glacier as the waters of Lake Argentino open a tunnel in the glacier, widening it un...

China United Coalbed Methane Corporation has signed a cooperative contract with Canadian Ivan Ventures Incorporation to join hands in the exploitation of coalbed methane in eastern...

Organizations from overseas in China are not permitted to promote foreign exchange business unless approved by the China Banking Regulatory Commission, the commission said here on...

China will reform its foreign exchange system in an orderly way and will not bend to pressure from the US to float the yuan, said Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People's Bank of C...

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd. (ICBC), China's biggest bank in terms of assets, has singled out five underwriters for its planned initial public offering, it has ann...

Hainan plans to make itself the destination for holidaymakers from Russia looking for a tropical paradise. Wei Liucheng, governor of China's southernmost island province, s...

After a 30-year suspension on the drawing board, China will resume planning the manufacture of a jumbo aircraft in its new five-year program (2006-2010) in the hope of realizing it...

China and the United States are expected to start a new round of talks on expansion of air services between the two countries this month, a senior US airline official said. ...

Hong Kong Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) announced on Saturday that it would suspend immediately beef imports from Swift Beef Company, a processing plant in Color...

With China's cotton market shortfall expected to reach 4 million tons this year, thousands of textile producers are under pressure from rising costs and insufficient supplies of r...

The 3rd Nanning International Dragon Boat Tournament will be held from June 2 to 3 in Nanning, capital city of South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, organizers said on Su...

Hong Kong's richest people Li Ka-shing ranks 10th with a net worth of 18.8 billion U.S. dollars on the 2006 list of the world's billionaires released Thursday by Forbes magazine, ...

Hong Kong Commerce, Industry & Technology Bureau has proposed simplifying the registration requirement for rough diamond traders and cutting the registration and licensing fees in ...

The central government will pour huge amounts of cash into ports to improve handling capacity and allow it to keep up with rising demand. That was the promise of a senior t...

Japan and China kicked off "2006 tourism exchange year" on Friday in Tokyo, with both sides expressing hope that tourism and grassroots exchanges can help improve the strained poli...

Sri Lankan Tourist Board (SLTB) will invest 2 million U.S. dollars for promoting tourism in Europe, Minister of Tourism Anura Bandaranaike was quoted by Daily News as saying Friday...

Credit card use in China's Taiwanamounted to 1.42 trillion new Taiwan dollars (43 billion US dollars) in 2005, up 13.3 percent over the previous year, according to a report reachin...

The Ministry of Finance announced Thursday China will raise export tariff rates on 25 categories of copper and copper-related products as of April 10. The ministry said th...

The shareholding reform of China's state-owned commercial banks will also involve qualified strategic investors at home, a senior official with the country's banking watchdog said ...

China's banking regulator on Thursday confirmed the corruption scandal in a Bank of China branch in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, which was recently exposed by media rep...

More than 11,000 exhibitors from 183 countries and regions arrived in the German capital on Wednesday to attend the world's largest tourism fair, which marks its 40th anniversary t...

Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearings Limited (HKEx) announced Wednesday its profit attributable to shareholders surged 27 percent over 2004 to 1.34 billion HK dollars (172 million U.S. ...

The Jilin Chemical Fiber Co., Ltd. based in Jilin City, northeast China's Jilin Province, has recently signed an agreement with the ENKA company from Germany to launch a joint ven...

Haier Group's overseas profitability has not yet reached the point where the company can be considered an international brand, the president of the nation's largest home appliance ...

The "blind rush" by the country's large State-owned enterprises (SOE) to be listed on international markets has led to a huge loss of State assets and is jeopardizing the mainland'...

The Shanghai Peace Hotel will open a museum tomorrow to celebrate its 100th anniversary. More than 80 artifacts will be on display, many of which were collected from hotel ...

Booming Jiangsu Province in East China exported 559,000 flat-panel TV sets, at a total value of 230 million U.S. dollars, last year, up 520 percent on the previous year. Lo...

Three former leaders of the Nanfang Securities, a troubled securities brokerage firm, have been detained by the police, Xinhua learned on Tuesday. The detained are Kan Zhid...

China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) announced here Monday that it is about to embark on its privatization process of four A-share listed subsidiaries with the permis...